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bigtree

(94,204 posts)
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 11:10 AM Aug 2025

If it's not leaks on the signal chain it's official docs left behind in the printer. It's an incompetent kakistocracy.

Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance 10m
If it’s not leaks on the signal chain it’s papers left behind in the printer. It’s an incompetent kakistocracy.

Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit

Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.

Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees.

At around 9 a.m. on Friday, three guests at Hotel Captain Cook, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage where leaders from the U.S. and Russia convened, found the documents left behind in one of the hotel's public printers. NPR reviewed photos of the documents taken by one of the guests, who NPR agreed not to identify because the guest said they feared retaliation.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind





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If it's not leaks on the signal chain it's official docs left behind in the printer. It's an incompetent kakistocracy. (Original Post) bigtree Aug 2025 OP
What a pack of incompetent boneheads. Swede Aug 2025 #1
The Trump Administration surfered Aug 2025 #2
Only the best people ? republianmushroom Aug 2025 #3
Trump hires college kids and criminals. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #4
It's also in printer memory, on the hotel printer server, and could be captured on any auditing software the hotel runs. TheBlackAdder Aug 2025 #5

Swede

(39,412 posts)
1. What a pack of incompetent boneheads.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 11:52 AM
Aug 2025

They must be the cream of the crop of Trump's boneheads.

Irish_Dem

(81,145 posts)
4. Trump hires college kids and criminals.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 12:22 PM
Aug 2025

Incompetence is the norm along with deliberate sabotage.

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)
5. It's also in printer memory, on the hotel printer server, and could be captured on any auditing software the hotel runs.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 02:13 PM
Aug 2025
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