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    The Other Putin-Trump Meeting

    The U.S. and Russian presidents met for a second, undisclosed time at the G20 summit, though it’s not known what they discussed.
    by David A. Graham Jul 18, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Reuters

    Updated at 7:16 p.m. ET

    When President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin went for more than two hours, well past the scheduled half-hour, it was a major news event. But it turns out that wasn’t even the end of the conversation between the two men.

    Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, first reported the secondmeeting Tuesday. Other also reported the news, and the White House confirmed it to. ( journalist Alberto Nardelli had reported about a meeting.) Trump reportedly met with the Russian leader for an additional hour of informal chats after a dinner of G20 leaders—though the White House in a statement late Tuesday by NBC’s Hallie Jackson called the encounter “brief” and denied it constituted a second meeting. While the first meeting was small—the only attendees were Trump, Putin, the Russian foreign minister, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and one interpreter from each country—this was even smaller: just Trump, Putin, and a Russian interpreter. Trump did not have his own interpreter.

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