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Does it get any more intriguing?
This could leave some egg on some peoples faces, and also raise again, suspicions of efforts by some to undermine this administration. At this point, I'm starting to think this isn't just about Trump, this is about trying to sidetrack the entire GOP. These kinds of leaks are done with a specific purpose. Especially when the media names an ally as being the one being harmed. Unforgivable.
Putin offers to hand over records of Trump-Lavrov meeting
Vladimir Putin offered Wednesday to help settle the controversy over claims President Trump shared classified intel with his diplomats.
Railing against “dangerous” U.S. politicians whipping up “anti-Russian sentiment,” the Russian president dismissed the claim that Trump disclosed such information to Kremlin officials and offered to hand over records of an Oval Office meeting to Congress.
Speaking during a joint news conference with the Italian prime minister, Putin said those attacking Trump for allegedly being too cozy with Russian politicians were guilty of “political schizophrenia.”
Putin said – if the White House agreed – that he would share his records of a meeting Trump had last week with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and ambassador Sergei Kislyak in which it was reported Trump blurted out sensitive information given to the White House by Israeli intelligence. Making light of the situation, Putin said he would have to reprimand Lavrov since the alleged intelligence was never passed along to him.
“He hasn’t shared those secrets with us,” Putin said.
The former KGB operative said he wasn’t yet ready to judge Trump’s nascent presidency and would only do so “when he’s allowed to work at full capacity,” ostensibly referencing the tidal wave of legislative resistance that’s greeted most of the items on Trump’s agenda.
The White House has adamantly defended Trump's conversations in that Oval Office meeting, saying what he discussed was "wholly appropriate."
"It was nothing that you would not know from open-source reporting," National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Tuesday.
This could leave some egg on some peoples faces, and also raise again, suspicions of efforts by some to undermine this administration. At this point, I'm starting to think this isn't just about Trump, this is about trying to sidetrack the entire GOP. These kinds of leaks are done with a specific purpose. Especially when the media names an ally as being the one being harmed. Unforgivable.
Putin offers to hand over records of Trump-Lavrov meeting
Vladimir Putin offered Wednesday to help settle the controversy over claims President Trump shared classified intel with his diplomats.
Railing against “dangerous” U.S. politicians whipping up “anti-Russian sentiment,” the Russian president dismissed the claim that Trump disclosed such information to Kremlin officials and offered to hand over records of an Oval Office meeting to Congress.
Speaking during a joint news conference with the Italian prime minister, Putin said those attacking Trump for allegedly being too cozy with Russian politicians were guilty of “political schizophrenia.”
Putin said – if the White House agreed – that he would share his records of a meeting Trump had last week with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and ambassador Sergei Kislyak in which it was reported Trump blurted out sensitive information given to the White House by Israeli intelligence. Making light of the situation, Putin said he would have to reprimand Lavrov since the alleged intelligence was never passed along to him.
“He hasn’t shared those secrets with us,” Putin said.
The former KGB operative said he wasn’t yet ready to judge Trump’s nascent presidency and would only do so “when he’s allowed to work at full capacity,” ostensibly referencing the tidal wave of legislative resistance that’s greeted most of the items on Trump’s agenda.
The White House has adamantly defended Trump's conversations in that Oval Office meeting, saying what he discussed was "wholly appropriate."
"It was nothing that you would not know from open-source reporting," National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Tuesday.
