Trump-Putin documents left on the hotel printer: NPR

Documents with the brands of the US State Department, found on Friday morning in the business center of an Alaska hotel, revealed previously unhappy and potentially sensitive details on August 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.

Eight pages, which seem to have been produced by American staff and left accidentally, have shared precise locations and hours of meeting of the summit and telephone numbers of US government employees.

Friday around 9 a.m., three people at the Captain Cook Cook, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from the Elmendorf-Richardson joint base in Anchorage where The leaders of the United States and Russiafound the documents left in one of the hotel’s public printers. NPR examined the photos of the documents taken by one of the guests, which NPR agreed not to identify because the guest said that they feared reprisals.

The White House and the US State Department did not respond to requests for comments on documents.

The first page of the printed package revealed the meetings of meetings for August 15, including the specific names of the parts inside the database in anchorage where they would take place. He also revealed that Trump intended to give Putin a ceremonial gift.

“Potus to President Putin,” said the document, “American statue of heads of the head pygarma.”

Pages 2 to 5 have listed the names and telephone numbers of three American staff as well as the names of 13 US and Russian heads of state. The list included phonetic pronouncers for all the Russian men expected at the top, including “Mr. President PO-TIH”.

Pages 6 and 7 in the package described how lunch at the top would be served and for whom. A menu included in the documents indicated that lunch should take place “in honor of His Excellency Vladimir Putin”.

A table of seats shows that Putin and Trump were supposed to sit from each other during lunch. Trump would be flanked by six officials: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the defense secretary Pete Hegseth and the Chief of Staff of the White House Susie Wiles on his right, and the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the commercial secretary Howard Lutnick and the special shipment for the peace missions Steve Witkoff on his left. Putin would be sitting immediately next to her Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, and his assistant to the president for foreign policy, Yuri Ushakov.

At the top Friday, lunch was apparently canceled. But it was intended to be a simple meal with three dishes, according to the documents. After a green salad, the world leaders would choose between Mignon or Pontrique Olympia net. The crème brûlée would be served for dessert.

Jon Michaels, professor of law at the UCLA who gives conferences on national security, said that the documents found in the printer of the Alaska hotel reveal a period of professional judgment in preparation for a meeting with high issues.

“It seems to me as an additional proof of the negligence and incompetence of the administration,” said Michaels. “You don’t leave things in printers. It’s just as simple.”

The printed papers are the latest example of a series of security violations by officials of the Trump administration. Earlier this week, the members of a group application of the law that included members of American immigration and customs application (ICE) added A random person has a conversation on a research in progress for a tempting murderer condemned. In March, American national security leaders accidentally included a journalist in a group cat On imminent military strikes in Yemen.

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