Author: Clare Lombardo / Source: NPR.org
Updated at 2:15 p.m. ET
President Trump has denied keeping details of his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin from his own administration.
“I’m not keeping anything under wraps.
I couldn’t care less,” Trump saidTrump’s denials follow a Washington Post report Saturday that “U.S. officials said there is no detailed record, even in classified files, of Trump’s face-to-face interactions with the Russian leader at five locations over the past two years.”
Current and former U.S. officials told the Post that after a 2017 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hamburg, Germany, Trump took his interpreter’s notes and told her not to speak of details of the meeting with other administration officials.
“This is just at odds with how presidents have conducted diplomacy for decades and decades in the United States,” said Washington Post reporter Greg Miller in a Sunday interview with NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro on Weekend Edition. “He’s taking steps that suggest that there are things being discussed here that he doesn’t even want his staff to hear about or to understand.”
Then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was present at that Hamburg meeting, which occurred at the G-20 summit.
Officials also told the Post that they never received a full, detailed account of Trump’s meeting with Putin in Helsinki in July 2018. No administration officials or aides were in the room for that talk.
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