* President Joe Biden will hold a solo press conference after his meeting with Vladimir Putin next week
* Two leaders meet in Geneva on Wednesday
* 'We expect this meeting to be candid and straightforward and a solo press conference is the appropriate format,' White House official said
* White House reluctant to grant Putin yet another prominent platform in addition to the summit itself and put Biden in unscripted situation
* Trump held joint presser with Putin when two leaders met in Helsinki in 2018
President Joe Biden will hold a solo press conference after his meeting with Vladimir Putin next week, denying the Russian president the opportunity to stand by him and answer questions from the press.
A joint press conference is traditional when two world leaders meet and President Donald Trump held one with Putin when the two men met in Helsinki in July 2018.
It was an indication both of the administration's reluctance to grant Putin yet another prominent platform in addition to the summit itself - as well as a reluctance on the part of the White House to put Biden in an unscripted situation that could go off the rails.
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Update #1: Biden will hold solo press conference after Putin meeting (FOX News)
Update #2: Biden And Putin Won't Hold A Joint News Conference After Their Geneva Meeting (NPR)
WNU editor: This breaks protocol. In the past a joint news conference always occurred after a summit.
The media narrative is that President Biden does not want to give Russian President Putin a platform that will give him a lot of media attention. As if the summit that the Biden administration requested does not give Putin a lot of attention.
I am willing to bet that the real reason why there is no joint news conference, as pointed out by the above Daily Mail post, is a reluctance on the part of the White House to put President Biden in an unscripted situation that could go off the rails.
