Impeachment: As Trump Secret Meeting With Putin At G20 Summit is Exposed

The story driving the moment by the liberal media is that, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a previously undisclosed conversation during a dinner at the G20 leaders summit last two weeks in Germany.

The two leaders held a bilateral meeting which lasted for two hours.  Putin having been pressed hard about US election meddling, Putin reportedly denied allegations.

However, President Trump's conversation with the Russian leader were vilified closely because of those allegations, which have dominated his first 100 days in the White House.

It is recalled that, both Trump and Putin had first met at the G20 during a gathering of other leaders.

In the evening, both Presidents attended a dinner with G20 leaders. Putin was seated next to US first lady Melania Trump. The US president went over to them at the conclusion of the dinner and visited with Putin, the official said. That conversation had not been previously disclosed.

"There was no 'second meeting' between President Trump and President Putin, just a brief conversation at the end of a dinner. The insinuation that the White House has tried to 'hide' a second meeting is false, malicious and absurd," the official said.

In a tweet late on Tuesday, Trump said: "Fake News story of secret dinner with Putin is "sick." All G20 leaders, and spouses, were invited by the Chancellor of Germany. Press knew!"

News of the conversation, first reported by Ian Bremmer, the president of political risk consultancy Eurasia Group, could raise renewed concern as congress and a special counsel investigate allegations by US intelligence agencies that Russia interfered to help Trump, a Republican, win the November 8 election.

Late last week, E-conner reported about Trump son's allegations of meeting with a Russian lawyer for Clinton information.

Bremmer said Trump got up from his seat halfway through dinner and spent about an hour talking "privately and animatedly" with Putin, "joined only by Putin's own translator".

The lack of a US translator raised eyebrows among other leaders at the dinner, said Bremmer, who called it a "breach of national security protocol".

Al Jazeera's Heidi Zhou-Castro, reporting from Washington DC, said the White House was trying to downplay the encounter as a conversation over dessert, rather than a meeting.

"But the reason that this has stirred up so much attention is because the relationship between Putin and Trump is under close scrutiny. The US intelligence agency has determined that Moscow attempted to interfere with the US election in favour of Donald Trump, and now multiple entities are investigating whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia," she said.

"Now, the revelation about this 'meeting', which was not revealed until now, adds to the perception that Trump and Putin may have a closer relationship than previously thought."

The White House official said the leaders and their spouses were only permitted to have one translator attend the dinner. Trump sat next to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife. His translator spoke Japanese.

"When President Trump spoke to President Putin, the two leaders used the Russian translator, since the American translator did not speak Russian," the official said.

Sources familiar with this development reported that, a US official who was briefed by some of his counterparts about the encounter said some of the leaders who attended the dinner were surprised to see Trump leave his seat and engage Putin in an extended private conversation with no one else from the US side present.

"No one is sure what their discussion was about, and whether it was purely social or touched on bilateral or international issues," the official said.

E-conner gathered that while the Democratic party lost the November 8 election, they are willing to do everything in their ambit to resist President Trump who won Hillary Clinton on a landslide. Thus, if indicting him with Russia, a staunch US enemy, it's seen as treason, that would lead to his impeachment. A move House Democrats can't wait to champion.