Holds previously undisclosed hour-long meeting with Putin at G20 dinner, later attacks reporting on

During a leaders-and-spouses dinner at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Trump left his own seat and went to sit with Vladimir Putin for a conversation, attended only by Putin's Russian interpreter with no American note-taker present, that people in the room said lasted roughly an hour. The encounter was not disclosed by the White House at the time and only became public after Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer described it publicly on July 17; the White House confirmed it the following evening, calling it merely a brief exchange. Just after midnight on July 19, Trump tweeted that the 'fake news' story about a 'secret dinner' was 'sick' and that reporting on a dinner attended by all G20 leaders and spouses had been 'made to look sinister.' The episode occurred amid the active federal and congressional investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election and Trump campaign contacts with Russian officials.