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White House responds to report of Alaska summit papers left on public printer: ‘Hilarious’

Documents from a meeting between President Trump and President Putin were mistakenly left on a hotel printer by the Office of the Chief of Protocol, officials said.

  • On Saturday, the White House responded to an NPR report revealing that Trump-Putin summit documents were left on a hotel printer, dismissing it as "hilarious", Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said.
  • Office of the Chief of Protocol officials apparently left the eight papers on a printer at the four-star Captain Cook hotel near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, NPR reported Friday.
  • According to the papers found on the printer, NPR said eight papers contained details about meetings, locations, and phone numbers of three U.S. advance staffers, including Trump-Putin summit info.
  • The White House dismissed as 'hilarious' an NPR report, with a UCLA professor calling the lapse sloppy and incompetent, and The New York Times reviewed the Halibut Olympia.
  • Recalling a previous mishap this weekend, NPR reported documents about Trump-Putin summit movements were left on a hotel printer, highlighting recurring administrative errors.
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You've always wanted to know behind the scenes of a meeting between two heads of state? 8 confidential pages, forgotten in a printer in Alaska, raise the mystery on the Trump-Putine summit. Top Info consulted them. (International).

Lean Left

Hotel guests reportedly discovered explosive information in a printer about the meeting of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska. For the U.S. government, the unveiling security gap does not seem to be a big problem.

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Alaska meeting failed to produce peace deal. Melania wrote to Putin, Zelensky to hold talks in the US.

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