В Белом доме рассказали о деталях второго разговора Трампа с Путиным
Во время саммита «Большой двадцатки» в Гамбурге президенты США и России, помимо широко известной встречи, провели еще один разговор, который длился около часа. Об этом сообщают американские СМИ, в частности издание Hill.
Пресс-секретарь Белого дома Шон Спайсер подтвердил этот факт. Сообщается, что разговор состоялся во время официального обеда и длился около часа.
Помимо Трампа и Путина в нем был задействован переводчик президента России. Трамп своего переводчика оставил с премьером Японии.
При этом в Администрации Трампа заявили, что заявления о том, что Белый дом пытался скрыть факт этого разговора являются ложью и абсурдом. А встречи президента с мировыми лидерами являются частью его работы и это абсолютно нормально.
Вот что пишет об этом Hill в оригинале:
President Trump held a second, informal talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this month, the White House confirmed Tuesday.
Press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed Trump and Putin spoke at the G-20 heads of state dinner, hours after their formal bilateral sit-down.
According to Tuesday reports, in their second conversation, Trump spoke with the Russian leader for roughly an hour, joined only by Putin’s translator. The meeting had previously gone without mention by the administration.
The White House confirmed that Trump and Putin spoke at a dinner for G20 leaders and their spouses. But a White House official appeared to dispute that the discussion lasted an hour, saying the two only spoke «briefly» near the end of the dinner.
«There was no ‘second meeting’ between President Trump and President Putin, just a brief conversation at the end of a dinner,» the official said. «The insinuation that the White House has tried to ‘hide’ a second meeting is false, malicious and absurd.»
The White House said the two men used the Russian translator to converse because the American translator accompanying President Trump spoke Japanese.
Trump arrived at the dinner just after 7 p.m. local time, according to a pool report. He did not depart the dinner venue until a few minutes before midnight.
The dinner was scheduled to last from 8:30 to 10 p.m., according to an official G20 schedule.
The president’s interactions with Putin are the subject of particularly intense scrutiny in the U.S., because of the ongoing special counsel and congressional investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
The official said talking with world leaders is part of the president’s job.
«It is not merely perfectly normal, it is part of a President’s duties, to interact with world leaders. Throughout the G20 and in all his other foreign engagements, President Trump has demonstrated American leadership by representing our interests and values on the world stage,» the official said.
That Trump was not joined in the conversation by his own translator is a breach of national security protocol, according to Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, though one that the president likely would not know about.
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