{"id":392647,"date":"2019-01-13T08:46:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T07:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-officials-kept-in-dark\/"},"modified":"2019-01-13T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T07:46:52","slug":"us-officials-kept-in-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-officials-kept-in-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"US officials kept in dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US officials have reportedly been unaware of details in the meetings between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are no detailed records of Trump\u2019s face-to-face meetings with Putin as the US president concealed any details, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/trump-has-concealed-details-of-his-face-to-face-encounters-with-putin-from-senior-officials-in-administration\/2019\/01\/12\/65f6686c-1434-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html\">report<\/a> published on Saturday by <em>The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the meetings, Trump himself took notes and directed a linguist not to discuss the details with the administration officials.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s former secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has acknowledged that he \u201cwas present for the entirety of the two presidents\u2019 official bilateral meeting in Hamburg,\u201d yet he has declined to discuss the details.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference last year following a summit in the Finnish capital Helsinki, Trump backed the Russian leader\u2019s denial of alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election despite the American intelligence community\u2019s assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s performance&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/13\/585635\/US-officials-kept-in-dark-about-TrumpPutin-meetings\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US officials have reportedly been unaware of details in the meetings between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. There are no detailed records of Trump\u2019s face-to-face meetings with Putin as the US president concealed any details, according to a report published on Saturday by The Washington Post. In one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}