White House officials told DailyMail the stunning confrontation was not any kind of premeditated tag-team operation . . .

The very fact that a RUSSIAN state-TV reporter was there to blab all about the "smack-down" to Putin lapdog Dmitry Medvedev to immediately use as propaganda for Russian public consumption was an indication it couldn't have planned better for Russia had Putin not been behind the curtains in the Oval directing Trump and Vance what to say.