Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
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When POTUS violates protocol via a long meeting with an enemy with no U.S. witness, read-out or press disclosure—yes, it's a secret meeting.
(2) The idea Trump held this hour-long meeting in a room with foreigners and therefore assumed they'd leak it—so it wasn't secret—is insane.
(3) If one witness hadn't leaked to a reporter—Ian Bremmer—we wouldn't have ever found out about this. Which is what Trump had hoped for.
(4) Any meeting a U.S. leader tries to hide from the U.S. public is an attempted "secret" meeting—I don't care a whit if G20 leaders knew.
(5) It's amazing how easily Trump put the press on its heels. He used the word "secret"—forcing (?) the press to say, "No, er, undisclosed!"
So, readers, you tell me: a meeting that remains permanently undisclosed to the U.S. public (what Trump hoped) is a ___ meeting.
In America—this country—when you meet with an enemy's leader, you (a) have a U.S. witness, (b) create a read-out, and (c) alert the press.