Trump says he sat with Putin at dinner because the wife of Japan’s leader doesn’t speak English. But she does

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that a lack of English conversational skills on the part of Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, prompted him to leave his spot next to her at dinner at an international summit and talk with Vladimir Putin instead. Mrs. Abe “doesn’t speak English … like, not…