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Posted on 01/14/2019 7:24:33 AM PST by jazusamo
Newly minted House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff hinted over the weekend that he could subpoena notes or testimony from the interpreter in several meetings between President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin, a move that would dramatically escalate majority Democrats' investigations into the Trump administration.
The chamber's newly empowered Democratic committee chairmen already are probing a range of Trump controversies, including calling a hearing with ex-fixer Michael Cohen who has detailed Trump's alleged role in making hush-money payments to mistresses.
But a move to obtain interpreter details from Putin meetings would trigger a major confrontation between the executive and legislative branches concerning discussions with foreign leaders. Schiff, D-Calif., weighed in after The Washington Post reported that Trump took possession of the notes from his own interpreter and instructed the individual not to discuss what had taken place in the meeting with other administration officials.
The report said Trump took the notes after a meeting with Putin in Hamburg in 2017 where his former secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, was present. The report also said there are no detailed records of Trump’s private meetings with Putin over the past two years, and administration officials have not gotten a full readout from their summit in Helsinki, Finland last summer. The report fueled suspicions from Democrats who have long alleged Trump is too close to Russia, and are closely watching the special counsel probe into possible collusion -- which Trump regularly pans as an unfounded "witch hunt."
“Last year, we sought to obtain the interpreter’s notes or testimony, from the private meeting between Trump and Putin. The Republicans on our committee voted us down. Will they join us now? Shouldn’t we find out whether our president is really putting ‘America first?’” Schiff tweeted on Sunday.
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Great idea, let’s make sure that no foreign leader ever feels comfortable having a private discussion with an American president again.
It’s way past time for Trump to turn the tables on these Democrat ass-hats. It would be interesting to get some insight into how Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters got so wealthy for starters.
Executive Privilege!!!
Meanwhile, Hillary skates on literally selling access to the Russkies while she was Secretary of State.
The DIMs (firmly established as lunatics) continue to despise representative government and the legally elected President. It would be true Justice if they were exiled for the rest of their seditious (and often traitorous) behavior. What losers. What pathetic poltroons.
Ignore it.
Schitt
Once full of Schiff, always full of Schiff
To rid themselves of Trump they will have to destroy the federal government to do it. Pathetic!
Exactly, no foreign leader will talk with President Trump confidentially if they know these people will divulge publicly everything they say.
I noticed that Warner stated that Trump might be a Russian agent, and some people put it down to TDS.
No, it is much more sinister than mere TDS. These people are out to destroy Trump down to his cellular level.
They have things in their past that they are terrified will become public.
Political infighting is typical, but these people go much beyond what is typical.
someone should go to prison. someone not named trump.
Executive privilege. No President would allow such an action. And the translators would be legally charged for divulging such information.
It’s way past time for Trump to turn the tables on these Democrat ass-hats.
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Well, he could have but he didn’t. Whatever happened to the FISA docs that he promised to “immediately declassify”? That was his big opportunity to turn the tables on the party and people who tried to take him down and subvert our elections and his presidency. Yet nothing.
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Schiff floats...
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If I remember correctly, one of Trump’s first calls to the leader of another country was leaked. Trump didn’t know who his friends and enemies were .... I would have done what he did to make sure the conversation with Putin (or any other private face-to-face meeting with anyone) didn’t leak. Claim Executive Privilege if necessary - Obama did it to hide the shenanigans & outright wrong doing (Holder/Fast & Furious) of his administration .... Trump should be able to do it to preserve his ability to speak with foreign leaders in confidence.
It sure does.
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