Saturday night *BOOM* -WaPo - Trump has concealed details from Putin talks fom Senior Officials.

[underpants]

Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration

Took interpreters notes from one meeting.


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.


Trump did so after a meeting with Putin in 2017 in Hamburg that was also attended by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. U.S. officials learned of Trump’s actions when a White House adviser and a senior State Department official sought information from the interpreter beyond a readout shared by Tillerson.

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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-has-concealed-details-of-his-face-to-face-encounters-with-putin-from-senior-officials-in-administration/2019/01/12/65f6686c-1434-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html

[BumRushDaShow]

1. I know this was discussed/speculated about quite a bit

but I suppose that WaPo decided to go ahead and research it and write about it.

[dalton99a]

2. Democrats should subpoena the interpreters ASAP before they "forget"

[2naSalit]

3. Right?

Maybe that's already happened?

[SallyHemmings]

5. I hope the interpreters had the wherewithal to do a write up in a journal..

A short time after the events..

[Gothmog]

24. Treasonous Trump Hides Details Of Putin Meetings From His Own Government

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

35. No privilege

Link to tweet

?s=20

[kentuck]

4. This is just more evidence coming out that certifies the FBI investigation as very valid.

Sometimes we have to accept reality as it is.

[underpants]

8. I'd say most likely they both had these

and waited for the holiday/post holiday period to pass and it's get back to business time.

It's back to back slams.

[czarjak]

9. Vladity?

[orangecrush]

21. ...

[WheelWalker]

32. Acute Involuntary Reality Syndrome.

[dawg day]

6. Sure looks, well, guilty...

To GOPer Mom: "I know. It can't be true that Trump's a Russian asset. But--"
Mom: But what?
Me: "But if he's not a Russian asset, why does he act so guilty? You know, like I used to act when you'd catch me sneaking out at night."
Mom: But you'd lie.
Me: Exactly.

[tanyev]

7. So, um, what is the current punishment for a treason conviction?

Just curious....

[colorado_ufo]

10. It depends on how many other charges there are.

I don't think that the death penalty can be applied, but I would actually prefer life in federal prison without chance of parole.

[Poiuyt]

11. In a prison in Mexico

[hibbing]

14. And Mexico WOULD pay for that n/t

[Ilsa]

15. I bet former president Vicente Fox would get

Mexico to agree to that.

[Poiuyt]

17. Willingly!

[triron]

16. Check out US code blow. Yes, may be capital offense.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381

[jmowreader]

22. Treason is extremely hard to prosecute

Let's go with Espionage instead. That's what they got all the 1980s spies on, and it comes with pretty much any sentence short of standing him up against the wall that you'd like to impose.

Besides...can you imagine the shock and horror from him when he finds out part of the inprocessing procedure at any federal prison worthy of the name includes a crewcut?

[pangaia]

27. crewcut?

[Poiuyt]

12. Can the interpreters be forced to testify about what was said?

either in front of Congress or a grand jury?

[Gothmog]

25. Yes, there is no privilege

[BigmanPigman]

30. I just read this article 5 min ago and wondered that myself.

Then when I read it just now I was going to ask that question. For the country's safety we MUST know what was said and this goes for every single discussion all presidents have but especially this one and even more especially when it is with Putin.

[underpants]

13. Dupe. Please see MBS's post.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142242719#post38

[Pepsidog]

18. Holy Shit!

[Maru Kitteh]

19. Destroying records

Last I knew, that shit was illegal. I knew they wouldn't go after him for deleted tweets but this is a whole other ball of twine. .

[TwistOneUp]

20. Treason! Military Tribunal! nt

[Gothmog]

23. Trump swore interpreter to secrecy after Putin meeting and took away notes:

Link to tweet

[pangaia]

26. We knew this when it happened.

I mean, it was even in the "news' somewhere...

[mchill]

28. Trump on Jeanine Pirro now

I’m not keeping anything under wraps, I couldn’t care less.”

[underpants]

29. Last refuge

I'm breaking my rule of not responding (MBS posted this first) because her show is a non-event. It's purpose is reposting sin Facebook/social media. No one is watching. Football is dominating and no one watches anyway.

[a kennedy]

31. IF HIS ASS DON'T FRY I SWEAR I WILL LEAVE THIS COUNTRY......

[Gothmog]

33. This is amusing

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Dave Starsky]

34. Putin walked out of that meeting with a fistful of handwritten notes.

Trump came out completely empty handed.

I always thought that was really weird.