Sandy Shanks
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We know Russia interfered in our election on Trump's behalf. We know Trump has never admitted that. We know that at Helsinki Trump rejected the extensive work done by our intelligence agencies and accepted Putin's denial because the Russian dictator was sincere.
What else do we know? Trump will not disclose his secret conversations with Putin, not even to his closest advisors, and there are no records of those conversations. Only Putin knows, not American intelligence and not American security officials.
We also know this poses a risk to our national security.
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.
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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...cfd62dbb0a8_story.html?utm_term=.2abedfa6f2a3
At Helsinki, Trump spent two hours alone with Putin, only translators were allowed. Many suspect Trump is being extorted by Putin, which would explain a lot. Only Putin knows what was said during those two hours. What is Trump hiding?
Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro that he did not take particular steps to conceal his private meetings with Putin (that is an extraordinary lie) and attacked The Washington Post and its owner Jeffrey P. Bezos for its reporting.
“Anyone could have listened to that meeting. That meeting is open for grabs,” Trump said. That is a bald-faced lie not even his diehard fans can believe.
Trump, Putin Meet For 2 Hours In Helsinki
What else do we know? Trump will not disclose his secret conversations with Putin, not even to his closest advisors, and there are no records of those conversations. Only Putin knows, not American intelligence and not American security officials.
We also know this poses a risk to our national security.
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.
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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...cfd62dbb0a8_story.html?utm_term=.2abedfa6f2a3
At Helsinki, Trump spent two hours alone with Putin, only translators were allowed. Many suspect Trump is being extorted by Putin, which would explain a lot. Only Putin knows what was said during those two hours. What is Trump hiding?
Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro that he did not take particular steps to conceal his private meetings with Putin (that is an extraordinary lie) and attacked The Washington Post and its owner Jeffrey P. Bezos for its reporting.
“Anyone could have listened to that meeting. That meeting is open for grabs,” Trump said. That is a bald-faced lie not even his diehard fans can believe.
Trump, Putin Meet For 2 Hours In Helsinki
