July 29, 2018
White House Restores Question to Trump-Putin Transcript
Darlene Superville READ TIME: 1 MIN.
The White House has updated its transcript of President Donald Trump's news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin to include a key question an American journalist asked the Russian leader.
This question to Putin - "Did you want President Trump to win the election?" - was left out of the initial version of the White House transcript of the July 16 news conference after Trump and Putin held a summit in Finland.
The White House had said the omission was "by no means malicious," blaming an audio glitch.
A subsequent search of the transcript showed Saturday that it had been updated to include the question.
Putin had answered, "Yes, I did. Yes, I did," but it was difficult to follow without the question.
