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As reporters from both Russia and the United States struggled for position during the meeting, Biden paused and looked at his notes, but did not continue speaking.
At one point, the president grinned as the chaos in the press scrum continued.
One American reporter said she asked Biden if he could trust Putin and the president looked at her and nodded.
A White House official immediately clarified on social media that Biden was not responding to any particular question.
“It was a chaotic scrum with reporters shouting over each other. The president was very clearly not responding to any one question, but nodding in acknowledgment to the press generally,” White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield wrote.
Biden smiled several times as photographers took photos, but Putin remained solemn.
As reporters were asked to leave the room, however, the camera captured Putin laughing although it was unclear why.
Of course Putin was laughing.
He knows a good circus when he sees it.
Putin is laughing because he has the receipts...and Slow Joe knows it.
Peter Dooci reported that the Ruskie reporters were manhandling the metrosexual Biden staff, er American press pool, pulling them by their shirts and moving them out of the way. Apparently the Ruskie's one the first phase of the summit.