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Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration
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Carbon
Jan 12, 2019, 11:46:16 PM1/12/19
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President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of
his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at
least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter
and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other
administration officials, current and former U.S. officials said.
Trump did so after a meeting with Putin in 2017 in Hamburg that was also
attended by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. U.S. officials learned
of Trump’s actions when a White House adviser and a senior State
Department official sought information from the interpreter beyond a
readout shared by Tillerson.
The constraints that Trump imposed are part of a broader pattern by the
president of shielding his communications with Putin from public scrutiny
and preventing even high-ranking officials in his own administration from
fully knowing what he has told one of the United States’ main adversaries.
As a result, U.S. officials said there is no detailed record, even in
classified files, of Trump’s face-to-face interactions with the Russian
leader at five locations over the past two years. Such a gap would be
unusual in any presidency, let alone one that Russia sought to install
through what U.S. intelligence agencies have described as an unprecedented
campaign of election interference.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is thought to be in the final stages
of an investigation that has focused largely on whether Trump or his
associates conspired with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The new details about Trump’s continued secrecy underscore the extent to
which little is known about his communications with Putin since becoming
president.
More here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-has-concealed-details-of-his-face-to-face-encounters-with-putin-from-senior-officials-in-administration/2019/01/12/65f6686c-1434-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html
his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at
least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter
and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other
administration officials, current and former U.S. officials said.
Trump did so after a meeting with Putin in 2017 in Hamburg that was also
attended by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. U.S. officials learned
of Trump’s actions when a White House adviser and a senior State
Department official sought information from the interpreter beyond a
readout shared by Tillerson.
The constraints that Trump imposed are part of a broader pattern by the
president of shielding his communications with Putin from public scrutiny
and preventing even high-ranking officials in his own administration from
fully knowing what he has told one of the United States’ main adversaries.
As a result, U.S. officials said there is no detailed record, even in
classified files, of Trump’s face-to-face interactions with the Russian
leader at five locations over the past two years. Such a gap would be
unusual in any presidency, let alone one that Russia sought to install
through what U.S. intelligence agencies have described as an unprecedented
campaign of election interference.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is thought to be in the final stages
of an investigation that has focused largely on whether Trump or his
associates conspired with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The new details about Trump’s continued secrecy underscore the extent to
which little is known about his communications with Putin since becoming
president.
More here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-has-concealed-details-of-his-face-to-face-encounters-with-putin-from-senior-officials-in-administration/2019/01/12/65f6686c-1434-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html
-hh
Jan 13, 2019, 9:13:43 AM1/13/19
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Carbon wrote:
> President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of
> his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at
> least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter
> and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other
> administration officials, current and former U.S. officials said.
That’s an illegal act right there (Federal Records Law 44 U.S.C. ch. 31 § 3101).
> President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of
> his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at
> least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter
> and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other
> administration officials, current and former U.S. officials said.
-hh
John B.
Jan 13, 2019, 1:51:18 PM1/13/19
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"WASHINGTON — So it has come to this: The president of the United States was asked over the weekend whether he is a Russian agent. And he refused to directly answer."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/us/politics/trump-russia-shutdown.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
B...@onramp.net
Jan 13, 2019, 3:19:29 PM1/13/19
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 10:51:16 -0800 (PST), "John B."
<john...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>The walls are closing in on the SOB.
Not fast enough.
<john...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>The walls are closing in on the SOB.
Carbon
Jan 13, 2019, 6:08:01 PM1/13/19
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six (6) banking the legitimate banking industry wouldn't touch him and his
sons were dumb enough to brag that most of their funding came from Russia.
That said, there are many other possible motives...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/here-are-18-reasons-why-trump-could-be-a-russian-asset/2019/01/13/45b1b250-174f-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html
This is hardly a “beyond a reasonable doubt” case that Trump is a Russian
agent — certainly not in the way that Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames were.
But it is a strong, circumstantial case that Trump is, as former acting
CIA director Michael Morell and former CIA director Michael V. Hayden
warned during the 2016 campaign, “an unwitting agent of the Russian
federation” (Morell) or a “useful fool” who is “manipulated by Moscow”
(Hayden). If Trump isn’t actually a Russian agent, he is doing a pretty
good imitation of one.
toms...@gmail.com
Jan 13, 2019, 10:16:37 PM1/13/19
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DumbedDownUSA
Jan 14, 2019, 1:50:35 AM1/14/19
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toms...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 8:46:16 PM UTC-8, Carbon wrote:
> > President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal
> > details of his conversations...
> On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 8:46:16 PM UTC-8, Carbon wrote:
> > President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal
> >
[snip]
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> Sounds like what Shrillary did at EVERY speech she gave!
How incredibly dumb of you.
> Sounds like what Shrillary did at EVERY speech she gave!
--
“Don’t give up. If there’s a concrete wall in front of you, go through
it. Go over it. Go around it. But get to the other side of that wall.”
Donald Trump
DumbedDownUSA
Jan 14, 2019, 1:58:51 AM1/14/19
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something you, for some bizarre reason, claim Trunp never does with
anyone.
MNMikeW
Jan 14, 2019, 4:10:55 PM1/14/19
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Alan Baker
Jan 14, 2019, 4:13:13 PM1/14/19
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B...@onramp.net
Jan 14, 2019, 4:26:43 PM1/14/19
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MNMikeW
Jan 14, 2019, 4:30:58 PM1/14/19
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DumbedDownUSA
Jan 14, 2019, 4:39:25 PM1/14/19
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B...@onramp.net
Jan 14, 2019, 7:28:55 PM1/14/19
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with his response can be thought of as an answer.
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John B.
Jan 15, 2019, 12:38:35 PM1/15/19
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