Confidential documents found in Alaska hotel before the Putin-Trump summit
The Trump administration downplayed the loss of documents describing the confidential movements of the president and Vladimir Putin.
Tourists at a hotel near the Alaskan military base where US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met Friday found confidential documents from the White House Office of Protocol that had been forgotten on a printer at the White House. facility.
Despite the major lapse, the Trump administration downplayed its mishandling of documents describing the confidential movements of President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin.
Both the White House and the State Department have ridiculed the documents, calling them a glorified lunch menu.
However, according to NPR, they were found around 9:00 a.m. local time on August 15, hours before the summit, and contain precise locations and times of the summit program, as well as phone numbers of government officials.
According to the report, the first two pages show the itineraries of the American and Russian delegations, and the names of the rooms reserved for the talks between the two leaders, as well as for preparations before the press conference and the location of Trump's interview with Fox News, which aired after the meeting.
The documents, which bear the inscription "prepared by the Office of the Chief of Protocol," reveal that Trump had planned to present Putin with a small bust of a bald eagle, the U.S. national bird.
It also shows a list of the members of the entourages, and in the case of the Russian one, the phonetic pronunciation of the names is added, including Putin's.
In addition, the position of the diners at the lunch planned after the talks, which in the end did not take place, can be seen.
In addition to this event, the Trump Administration has already been embroiled in controversy over the leak of confidential information.
In March, Several senior officials shared information about preparations for a bombing in Yemen in a group chat on the messaging app Signal without realizing that a journalist had been mistakenly invited to the group and published the conversations.
According to an April report by The New York Times, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also shared military information in another chat that included two relatives and his personal lawyer.

