posted July 20, 2017 08:24 AM            

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In his first description of his dinnertime conversation with Mr. Putin at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany, Mr. Trump downplayed its significance. He said his wife, Melania, was seated next to Mr. Putin at the other end of a table filled with world leaders.

“The meal was going toward dessert,’’ he said. “I went down just to say hello to Melania, and while I was there I said hello to Putin. Really, pleasantries more than anything else. It was not a long conversation, but it was, you know, could be 15 minutes. Just talked about things. Actually, it was very interesting, we talked about adoption.”

He noted the adoption issue came up in the June 2016 meeting between his son and Russian visitors. “I actually talked about Russian adoption with him,’’ he said, meaning Mr. Putin. “Which is interesting because it was a part of the conversation that Don had in that meeting.”

But the president repeated that he did not know about his son’s meeting at the time and added that he did not need the Russians to provide damaging information about Mrs. Clinton.

“There wasn’t much I could say about Hillary Clinton that was worse than what I was already saying,” he said. “Unless somebody said that she shot somebody in the back, there wasn’t much I could add to my repertoire.”

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"Adoptions" means sanctions. He talked to him about sanctions. Privately, with no record of what was said.

And, oh, by the way, yesterday it was announced that we're pulling our support for the rebels who are fighting against Assad, Russia's ally in Syria.

He's at war with the entire Justice Department and the Intelligence agencies and he seems to be threatening to fire anyone who crosses him.

posted July 20, 2017 02:19 PM            

The G-20 Summit and other gatherings of world leaders is intended to further talks between world leaders.

Trump talked to Putin! BFD!