DAY 179: Donald Trump had secret meeting with Putin

The New York Times publishes today that after their first meeting at the G-20 summit, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met again at a dinner, but Trump didn't tell the public about it and his administration did not keep records of the meeting.

Still, a witness to the meeting describes Trump's attitude as wanting other world leaders to know he was closer to Putin than they were.

From the NYT article:

The dinner discussion caught the attention of other leaders around the table, some of whom later remarked privately on the odd spectacle of an American president seeming to single out the Russian leader for special attention at a summit meeting that included some of the United States’ staunchest, oldest allies.

Trump immediately responded to the NYT article with this tweet:

Fake News story of secret dinner with Putin is "sick." All G 20 leaders, and spouses, were invited by the Chancellor of Germany. Press knew!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2017

Well, when you don't tell the public about it yourself, you're bound to be seen as sinister if you do what you were NOT supposed to be doing.

Because Trump was supposed to go to a dinner, not to be Putin's BFF at the dinner.