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pnwmom

(108,973 posts)
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 09:58 PM Jan 2019

So, in the past 24 hours we have learned . . .






Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1
So between NYT and WaPo, we have learned, in the past 24 hours, that Trump was the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation for working on behalf of Russia and that he attempted to stop U.S. officials from having a record of his conversations with Russia's president.
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So, in the past 24 hours we have learned . . . (Original Post) pnwmom Jan 2019 OP
K&R mcar Jan 2019 #1
Did He Stop THem Me. Jan 2019 #2
He made an interpreter hand over his or her notes. pnwmom Jan 2019 #4
Well If Mueller Got His Hands On The Comey Letter Draft Me. Jan 2019 #5
Nothing to see here. Move along. bitterross Jan 2019 #3
trump is also hiding the details of his meetings with putin Gothmog Jan 2019 #6
Shit meet fan. orangecrush Jan 2019 #7
So maybe this will be DENVERPOPS Jan 2019 #10
We also learned as the general public ffr Jan 2019 #8
+1 dalton99a Jan 2019 #9
Rachel always points out how often we get our news about Trump from the kremlin. triron Jan 2019 #11
I have a Russian friend DENVERPOPS Jan 2019 #12
The whole world is laughing at the whole country, we have lost what little integrity we had left mastermind Jan 2019 #13

Me.

(35,454 posts)
2. Did He Stop THem
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 10:00 PM
Jan 2019

or do they have a have a record of those conversations? The word attempted suggests he didn't stop them.

pnwmom

(108,973 posts)
4. He made an interpreter hand over his or her notes.
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 10:03 PM
Jan 2019

That doesn't mean someone from the FBI couldn't have debriefed the interpreter afterwards . . .

We don't know.

Here's CNN's report on the WA Post story.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/12/politics/trump-putin-meetings-no-records/index.html

Me.

(35,454 posts)
5. Well If Mueller Got His Hands On The Comey Letter Draft
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 10:13 PM
Jan 2019

that Individual 1 and Miller wrote and that McGhan forbade them to send, who knows what they have and...I know think it's a given that 'conversations' were being monitored.

DENVERPOPS

(8,805 posts)
10. So maybe this will be
Sun Jan 13, 2019, 12:42 AM
Jan 2019

So maybe this will be the alarming equivalent to Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" that brings down the whole mess????????

Maybe the whole Republican mess of them should gather together and drink some "kool-aid"......LOL

ffr

(22,668 posts)
8. We also learned as the general public
Sun Jan 13, 2019, 12:17 AM
Jan 2019


Tom Nichols

There are more people in the Kremlin than in Washington who know what Trump said to Putin.

DENVERPOPS

(8,805 posts)
12. I have a Russian friend
Sun Jan 13, 2019, 12:47 AM
Jan 2019

I have a Russian friend who has been saying for at least a year that all the people in Russia are watching this whole thing and laughing their collective asses off at how masterfully Putin is and has been playing the stupid Republicans and the idiot Trump.........

 

mastermind

(229 posts)
13. The whole world is laughing at the whole country, we have lost what little integrity we had left
Sun Jan 13, 2019, 12:53 AM
Jan 2019

and a few countries even pity us, lake our friends to the north, who try to help when they can, we don't deserve it.

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