Guests using a business-centre printer at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage on Friday discovered an eight-page packet bearing U.S. State Department markings that outlined previously undisclosed details of the 15 Aug. summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, National Public Radio reported. Photographs reviewed by NPR show the documents listed exact meeting times and room locations at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, phone numbers of three U.S. staff members and phonetic guides for 13 Russian and American officials, including “Mr. President POO-tihn.” The papers also indicated Trump planned to present Putin with an American Bald Eagle desk statue and set out a three-course luncheon—green salad, filet mignon or halibut Olympia, and crème brûlée—“in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin,” though the meal was later cancelled. White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly dismissed the find as a “multi-page lunch menu,” denying that leaving it on a public printer constituted a security breach. Jon Michaels, a national-security law professor at UCLA, countered that the lapse showed “sloppiness and incompetence,” noting that the schedule and contact details could aid hostile actors. The incident adds to scrutiny of the administration’s handling of sensitive information during high-stakes diplomacy that ended without a breakthrough on the war in Ukraine.
Le sommet entre Trump et Poutine ne s’est pas passé comme prévu, ces documents oubliés en Alaska le prouvent https://t.co/jNBbg7pSYS
Internal State Dept. documents on Trump/Putin summit left on Alaska hotel printer: NPR https://t.co/ZKrOnGOe2J
Des documents confidentiels oubliés dans une imprimante en Alaska montrent que tout ne s’est passé comme prévu entre Poutine et Trump https://t.co/no207HlGba