The Trump administration this weekend downplayed a report that officials left in a public area of a hotel documents describing the confidential movements of President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia during their meeting in Alaska on Friday.

NPR reported earlier that the documents were left on a printer in the Hotel Captain Cook in downtown Anchorage, near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, where Trump and Putin had their meeting about the war in Ukraine. The documents were produced by the Office of the Chief of Protocol, a position held by Monica Crowley, a former Fox News personality who served in Trump’s first term.

The papers were found around 9 a.m. Friday and sent to NPR by a guest of the hotel, who was granted anonymity. They listed the sequence of events, which i

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