Hotel Guests In Alaska Find Documents About Trump And Putin Meeting
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The summit didn't go according to plan.
U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) reports that guests found eight pages of documents describing a plan for a meeting between Russian dictator Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in a public printer at a hotel in Anchorage, BBC reports.
The documents were found by three unnamed guests at the four-star Hotel Captain Cook, 20 minutes from the summit site, the Elmendorf-Richardson base. It happened around 9 a.m. local time on Friday, which is about two hours before the meeting began.
NPR published an eight-page document. It shows that at first the presidents were to talk not one-on-one, as originally planned, nor three-on-three, as eventually happened, but two-on-two: on the American side, Donald Trump and Steve Whitkoff, on the Russian side, Vladimir Putin and his aide Yuri Ushakov. They were eventually joined by the two countries' foreign policy chiefs, Sergei Lavrov and Marco Rubio.
Also included is a menu for the joint lunch and a timeline of the meeting, which makes it clear that the two presidents had an hour for their joint press conference. Putin and Trump spoke to reporters after their meeting but did not answer their questions.
The White House and State Department did not respond to requests for comment, NPR reported.