OSAKA, JAPAN - JUNE,28 Trump points to Putin during their bilateral meeting at the G20 Osaka Summit ... [+] 2019. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images) Getty ImagesDonald Trump wrote Vladimir Putin a personal letter in 2007, congratulating the Russian president on being named “Person of the Year” in TIME magazine, according to a nearly-1,000-page report that the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released Tuesday. “Dear President Putin,” the letter began. “I told you @TIME Magazine would never pick me as person of the year despite being the big favorite,” Trump tweeted. “They picked person who is ruining Germany.”The next year, Trump thought the TIME editors selected the correct person.

Source: Forbes August 18, 2020 18:33 UTC