Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, 2018 (Image: Wikimedia)
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has expressed surprise that the private phone calls of President Donald Trump have been made available for public consumption in contravention of international practice. “The materials related to conversations between heads of states are usually classified according to normal international practice,” he told reporters.
Trump’s notorious phone call to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky was recently released to Congress. The release of the transcript led House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into the president’s conduct on Tuesday.
The fact that the U.S. government has reluctantly publicized the confidential conversation between two currently serving presidents is totally unprecedented in the history of international politics.
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