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There was a Trump Putin phone call on March 30. http://www.anews.com.tr/world/2020/03/30/putin-trump-discuss-oil-markets-coronavirus-in-phone-call
On March 30, Putin and Trump “spoke by telephone, the first of 5 calls between the two over a period of three weeks, a flurry of communication unprecedented during Trump's 3 1/2 years in office.” https://www.rferl.org/a/russsia-us-trump-putin-reset-flurry-communication-diplomacy/30573019.html
There were Trump Putin phone calls on:
March 30
April 9
April 10
April 12
June 1
Trump and Putin also issued a joint statement on April 25
March 30
April 9
April 10
April 12
June 1
Trump and Putin also issued a joint statement on April 25
so a month after the US interagency debated how to respond to US intel on Russian bounty for Taliban to kill US troops, Trump chose to issue a joint statement with Putin commemorating the ‘spirit of the elbe’ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/joint-statement-president-donald-j-trump-president-vladimir-putin-russia-commemorating-75th-anniversary-meeting-elbe/
Seems to me Trump decided how he wanted to respond to the intel. He further kissed up to Putin
