Why would President Biden brag about turning in his notes after a private meeting with Xi Jinping? Because as stevebenen writes, he was getting in a subtle dig at his predecessor, who did the opposite after meeting with Vladimir Putin.
And why, pray tell, would the American president make such a comment? Why would it matter that Biden turned in his notes after meeting with the Chinese leader?
It might not have been immediately obvious to everyone, but he was taking a not-so-subtle rhetorical shot at his immediate predecessor., ahead of his July 2018 summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump insisted that the meeting be limited to a one-on-one discussion, with no other U.S. officials, even members of the Trump cabinet, participating.
That didn’t happen. White House officials, military leaders, and even then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats all conceded in the days following the summit thatnearly a year later that Trump went to “extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations” with the Russian leader. [Trump has established a pattern] of shielding his communications with Putin from public scrutiny and preventing even high-ranking officials in his own administration from fully knowing what he has told one of the United States’ main adversaries. As a result, U.S. officials said there is no detailed record, even in classified files, of Trump’s face-to-face interactions with the Russian leader at five locations over the past two years.
The article added that all of this was seen as unusual, and officials conceded that Trump’s behavior was “at odds with the known practices of previous presidents, who have relied on senior aides to witness meetings and take comprehensive notes then shared with other officials and departments.”, Trump “took possession” of his own interpreter’s notes after a conversation with Putin.
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