President Donald Trump, proper, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin arrive for a joint press convention at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
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Papers with U.S. State Division markings, discovered Friday morning within the enterprise middle of an Alaskan resort, revealed beforehand undisclosed and probably delicate particulars concerning the Aug. 15 conferences between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.
Eight pages, that seem to have been produced by U.S. employees and left behind by accident, shared exact places and assembly instances of the summit and telephone numbers of U.S. authorities workers.
At round 9 a.m. on Friday, three friends at Resort Captain Prepare dinner, a four-star resort positioned 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage the place leaders from the U.S. and Russia convened, discovered the paperwork left behind in one of many resort’s public printers. NPR reviewed photographs of the paperwork taken by one of many friends, who NPR agreed to not establish as a result of the visitor stated they feared retaliation.
Footage of two paperwork concerning the Trump-Putin assembly in Alaska that had been present in a public resort printer in Anchorage.
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The primary web page within the printed packet disclosed the sequence of conferences for August 15, together with the precise names of the rooms inside the bottom in Anchorage the place they might happen. It additionally revealed that Trump meant to provide Putin a ceremonial current.
“POTUS to President Putin,” the doc states, “American Bald Eagle Desk Statue.”
On Saturday, White Home Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly dismissed the papers as a “multi-page lunch menu” and prompt leaving the data on a public printer was not a safety breach. The U.S. Division of State didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Pages 2 by means of 5 of the paperwork listed the names and telephone numbers of three U.S. employees members in addition to the names of 13 U.S. and Russian state leaders. The record offered phonetic pronouncers for all of the Russian males anticipated on the summit, together with “Mr. President POO-tihn.”
Pages 6 and seven within the packet described how lunch on the summit can be served, and for whom. A menu included within the paperwork indicated that the luncheon was to be held “in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”
A seating chart exhibits that Putin and Trump had been supposed to sit down throughout from one another through the luncheon. Trump can be flanked by six officers: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth and White Home Chief of Workers Susie Wiles to his proper, and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Particular Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff to his left. Putin can be seated instantly subsequent to his Minister of International Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, and his Aide to the President for International Coverage, Yuri Ushakov.
Through the summit Friday, lunch was apparently cancelled. But it surely was meant to be a easy, three-course meal, the paperwork confirmed. After a inexperienced salad, the world leaders would dine on filet mignon and halibut olympia. Crème brûlée can be served for dessert.
Jon Michaels, a professor of regulation at UCLA who lectures about nationwide safety, stated that the paperwork discovered within the printer of the Alaskan resort reveal a lapse in skilled judgement in preparation for a high-stakes assembly.
“It strikes me as additional proof of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration,” stated Michaels. “You simply do not depart issues in printers. It is that straightforward.”
The printed papers are the most recent instance of a sequence of safety breaches by officers of the Trump administration. Earlier this week, members of a regulation enforcement group chat that included members of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added a random individual to a dialog about an ongoing seek for a convicted tried assassin. In March, U.S. nationwide safety leaders by accident included a journalist in a group chat about impending navy strikes in Yemen.
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