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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s hard to say whether I have less respect for the people who actually believe the Russian collusion hoax (assuming that there are actually some who genuinely believe that Trump is a Putin puppet) or those who are just cynically using it for their own purposes.


22 posted on 01/14/2019 1:44:16 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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Except that his whole paragraph of indictments, charges, pleas, and guilties ALL have NOTHING to do with the Trump campaign, which makes Trump correct not wrong.

And when you consider all of the leaks of his discussions with foreign leaders alone, I would expect nothing less than high personal secrecy of any foreign policy meetings.


23 posted on 01/14/2019 1:44:28 PM PST by gnickgnack2 ( Another bad day for Trump, he only got seven major things accomplished .)
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But Trump did inform his advisors on the gist of the meeting. Why shouldn’t he have the interpreter’s notes? After being In office for a few weeks, the transcript of Trump’s telephone call with the PM of Australia was leaked to the public. Who can Trump trust?


25 posted on 01/14/2019 1:45:05 PM PST by kabar
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rumors persist President Trump promptly promised putin more slack after 2020 reelection..


27 posted on 01/14/2019 1:45:49 PM PST by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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The simple answer is to just go back to that disgraceful episode where the transcript of the President’s entire conversation with the Australian PM was leaked to the media.


28 posted on 01/14/2019 1:46:36 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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No, CNN is wrong. THE BIG QUESTION is: “Why on Earth would Putin and the rest of the Russian leadership have ever wanted Donald Trump to be President of the US?”

Trump promised to unleash our oil industry (and did), which would necessarily lead to lower oil and NG prices, which would severely hurt the Russian economy (much as the Reagan-Casey engineered huge spike in Saudi production in the mid-’80s helped to destroy the Soviet economy). Further, he promised to substantially increase spending on the US military (much as Reagan’s huge build-up helped to bankrupt the Soviets).

Compare and contrast to Hillary, who promised to continue or accelerate Obama’s destruction of our fossil fuel energy companies (maybe because the HUGE donors to the Clinton Foundation were Arab/OPEC nations??), and said nothing about our military (though has long been known to have contempt for our military and expanding its power).

Finally, they had nothing on Trump with which to blackmail him...vs. a huge file on the entire Uranium One deal with which to blackmail Hillary.


29 posted on 01/14/2019 1:47:02 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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Did you collude?
No
Did you collude?
No
Did you collude?
No
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Did you collude?
No
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‘Trump’ still has unanswered questions


30 posted on 01/14/2019 1:47:15 PM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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I’m sure this guy also asked why Obama went to great lengths to conceal his college records.


31 posted on 01/14/2019 1:48:58 PM PST by Jonny7797
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I go out of my way to avoid CNN and WP because they always lie. Why would I want to read it on FR?


32 posted on 01/14/2019 1:49:05 PM PST by enumerated
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