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Russian Foreign Minister: Trump, Putin May Have Met More Times

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“Much more than just three times,” said Sergei Lavrov.

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President Trump may have met with Russian President Vladimir Putin more times than was previously reported at the G-20 summit in Germany earlier this month, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Trump and Putin shook hands and then had a scheduled bilateral meeting, both of which were shared with the press at the summit. Earlier this week, the White House confirmed a third meeting during a dinner in Hamburg. “They might have met even much more than just three times,” Lavrov told NBC News on Friday, shrugging off the significance of such numbers. “After the dinner was over…I was not there…President Trump apparently went to pick up his wife and spent some minutes with President Putin…so what?”

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