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Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in admin
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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?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bfa9608f5e50
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.
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.
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I'm hearing the investigation is about Trump.
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Trump should only be sharing Classified information with those he trusts to ensure our vital interests.
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No slant in that unbiased "news".
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I heard he told Putin to wait until after the election and then he could be more “flexible.”
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The conversation was something about "the most transparent administration in history".
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How’s the impeachment going?
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Trump decided to keep the notes of the translator,a fact likely only know to him and the translator. This fact then was leaked to the press. Those two facts tell you why Trump did what he did.
Who leaked the conversations between Trump and Austrailia or Trump and Mexico? -
Didn't that happen within the first few days of Trump taking office? We still don't know who unmasked and leaked Flynn's conversation with the Russian. Trump has every reason to believe that his enemies are inside the line.Dude61 said:Trump decided to keep the notes of the translator,a fact likely only know to him and the translator. This fact then was leaked to the press. Those two facts tell you why Trump did what he did.
Who leaked the conversations between Trump and Austrailia or Trump and Mexico?
