US President Donald Trump, left, listens as Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, speaks during a news conference in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018. PHOTO | washington post
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“Trump’s warm embrace of Putin throughout a lengthy news conference was an extraordinary capstone to their first formal summit here Monday, where the two presidents spent two hours speaking alone, joined only by their interpreters,” my colleagues reported from Helsinki. The details of that two-hour discussion have yet to fully emerge, but the presser itself will go down in the annals of American diplomatic history.
