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CNN: The 1 giant question Donald Trump still hasn't answered on Russia
CNN ^ | 01/14/2019 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 01/14/2019 1:30:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind

President Donald Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House Monday that suggestions he was some sort of Russian agent were totally ridiculous, and insisted that the entire special counsel investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election is a "whole big fat hoax."

It's in keeping with his broader approach to the question of Russia's election meddling efforts and ties between those close to his campaign and actors for foreign powers: This is all a sham. Special counsel Robert Mueller is out to get him -- as is the entire FBI. They've got nothing. (The 192 criminal counts, 36 people and entities charged, seven people who have pleaded guilty, the four people sentenced to prison and the one person convicted at trial as a result of the Mueller probe make clear, of course, that Trump is wrong.)

But even if you ignore all of those facts about the Mueller investigation, there's still one question I keep coming back to over the last 48 hours: Why did Trump go out of his way to ensure that no records of his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin exist?

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Russia
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These two paragraphs, from The Washington Post's Greg Miller, are staggering stuff:
"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....

"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."

1 posted on 01/14/2019 1:30:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

AUTHOR ASKS:

Why, if you are Trump, would you purposely shield your conversations with Putin even from your own aides? Why would you take notes from a translator at one encounter and urge that person not to reveal what transpired — even to your senior aides? Why would you, as Miller notes in his story, ensure that “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.”


2 posted on 01/14/2019 1:31:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here we go. Fact is, Trump has not concealed anything. And secondly, he has the right to conceal whatever the heck he wishes to conceal.


3 posted on 01/14/2019 1:33:23 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: SeekAndFind
It's none of your business. World leaders, since the beginning of civilization, have been allowed to converse in private while negotiating.

You have no right to see the sausage being made, but in this country, you can register your opinion on the quality of the sausage at the ballot box.

4 posted on 01/14/2019 1:35:36 PM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmmmm.... perhaps because the Deep State leaks his conversations with foreign leaders which makes it impossible to have meaningful conversations with them? Wow, that was hard.


5 posted on 01/14/2019 1:35:44 PM PST by Stingray51
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To: SeekAndFind

My questions:

1)Is this true?
2)Does Trump do this with allies too?
3)Does Trump have reasons to distrust people around him, who would misuse and leak coversations?
4)Is this just a fishing expedition?
5) Who cares?
6)Do most of these questions answer themselves?


6 posted on 01/14/2019 1:36:09 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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Let me guess - you want the private conversations to remain private? Sounds like they are talking about stuff they don’t want the rest of the world to know.

Color me naive, but I thought a lot of government stuff tries to be private/secure. When everybody’s a leaker, how does one go about doing that?


7 posted on 01/14/2019 1:36:28 PM PST by cuban leaf
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Anyone who is still taking any "Russia/Trump" BS seriously is a ridiculous CLOWN-ASS or seditionist. No exceptions.

At this point you're evil or a fool.

8 posted on 01/14/2019 1:36:32 PM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: SeekAndFind

duh:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/04/full-transcript-of-trumps-phone-call-with-australian-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull


9 posted on 01/14/2019 1:36:51 PM PST by delapaz
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To: SeekAndFind

FO CNN and your god the Fraud you rode in on.

As always!


10 posted on 01/14/2019 1:36:56 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: SeekAndFind

Imagine if the FBI and other agencies had investigated all the money and collusion the Clintons had from the Chinese. It would dwarf this investigation, because there were millions of dollars that flowed into the campaigns, sometimes over 100 donors from a single address, contributing to the campaign. How can 100 different people live at one address? LOL


11 posted on 01/14/2019 1:37:33 PM PST by realcleanguy
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How do we know no record exists or that he never discussed the meetings with anyone?

The interpreters job is to translate, not take minutes or give reports to anyone who asks.

12 posted on 01/14/2019 1:38:04 PM PST by noexcuses
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To: AAABEST

“Anyone who is still taking any “Russia/Trump” BS seriously is a ridiculous CLOWN-ASS or seditionist. No exceptions.”

EVERY Rat I know is completely sold on it. No exceptions.


13 posted on 01/14/2019 1:38:19 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: SeekAndFind
Cillizza is one one CNN’s biggest dem buttlicks.
14 posted on 01/14/2019 1:38:55 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: AAABEST

At this point you’re evil or a fool.

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It’s even worse than that. Cillizza is a CNN stooge!


15 posted on 01/14/2019 1:39:04 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: SeekAndFind

Aliens.


16 posted on 01/14/2019 1:39:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As if some CNN reporter doesn’t have private conversations with Obama or Clinton.


17 posted on 01/14/2019 1:39:30 PM PST by outpostinmass2
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1. What's the number one question Hillary hasn't had to answer about her collusion with Russia?

2. Hillary also committed a felony (per James Comey) so why hasn't she been charged?

Great questions for CNN who will never pursue it.

18 posted on 01/14/2019 1:40:34 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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Who is heading up the Special Council investigating Mexico’s election meddling efforts?


19 posted on 01/14/2019 1:40:52 PM PST by The Toll
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Because at that time his administration leaked worse that the Titanic. He did not want anything to leak, end of discussion.


20 posted on 01/14/2019 1:43:11 PM PST by Lockbox
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