The private conversation took place during a dinner for g ,20 leaders in Germany this month, says White House official
Trump's interactions with Putin were scrutinised closely due to allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election in Trump's favour [File: Carlos Barria/Reuters],US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a previously undisclosed conversation during a dinner for g ,20 leaders at a summit earlier this month in Germany, a White House official said on Tuesday.The two leaders held a formal two-hour bilateral meeting on July 7 in which Trump later said Putin denied allegations that he directed efforts to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election.Trump's interactions with the Russian leader were scrutinised closely because of those allegations, which have dominated his first six months in the White House, and Trump's comments as a presidential candidate praising the former KGB spy.Trump and Putin first met at the g ,20 during a gathering of other leaders, which was shown in a video. They later held the bilateral meeting, which was attended briefly by a pool of reporters
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