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Trump & Putin Hold Press Briefing After Summit, July 16, 2018
Jonathan Lemire from AP
The final 2 questions of the Summit are for Putin. 1. What did Trump say about recognizing Crimea? 2. Do you or does the Russian government have any compromising material on President Trump or his family?
Putin answers the second question by saying that he heard the rumors about collecting compromising material on Trump. Putin said he didn’t know Trump when he traveled to Russia as a private citizen. He continues by talking about 500 high-ranking American business people attending the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. Putin could have simply said that they don’t collect compromising material. Instead, Putin says that it is absurd to think that Russia collected compromising material on each and every one of them.
Putin closes with, “Well, please just disregard these issues, and don’t think about this anymore again.”
At the end of the previous question, Trump added – “And I have to say, if they had it, it would have been out long ago.” No, the whole point of compromising material is to hold it privately for as long as possible to extract the most value from it.
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