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Donald Trump spent Sunday playing golf and dining at a country club that he owns in West Palm Beach, Florida, as he vacations at his nearby Mar-a-Lago estate. But shortly before 11 a.m., Trump found time to take a phone call from Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a Politico report.
But neither Trump nor any administration spokesperson acknowledged that the call took place. Instead, the public revelation of Putin’s chat with Trump came from the office of the President of Russia and was posted online at the Kremlin site.
According to the Kremlin “readout” — that is, brief summary — of the call, Trump and Putin “discussed a range of issues of mutual interest.” The readout also said that Putin, on the call, thanked Trump for “information transmitted through the channels of U.S. special services” that helped Russian authorities “thwart terrorist acts in Russia.”