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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 06:59 AM Jul 2017

Trump-Putin Meeting Raises Red Flags for National Security Experts

Trump-Putin Meeting Raises Red Flags for National Security Experts
by ROBERT WINDREM JUL 19 2017, 6:20 PM ET

President Donald Trump's just-disclosed hourlong meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G-20 summit — using a Kremlin translator, with no national security staff present — may have damaged U.S. interests, according to some national security experts.

With no other witness or note-taker of the sort normally present on the American side, there's no guarantee that Trump or Putin's words were translated correctly — or that Trump didn't give away more classified information, as he did when top Russian officials came to the White House in May.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-putin-meeting-raises-red-flags-national-security-experts-n784601

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Trump-Putin Meeting Raises Red Flags for National Security Experts (Original Post) workinclasszero Jul 2017 OP
Grovelling needs no translation. Girard442 Jul 2017 #1
Good point workinclasszero Jul 2017 #2
The takeaway? PdxSean Jul 2017 #3
Just imagine the outcry if a democratic president had done such a thing workinclasszero Jul 2017 #4
This was another example of how unprepared trump is to be POTUS Gothmog Jul 2017 #5

PdxSean

(574 posts)
3. The takeaway?
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 07:53 AM
Jul 2017

This: "With no other witness . . . there's no guarantee that . . .Trump didn't give away more classified information, as he did when top Russian officials came to the White House in May."

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
4. Just imagine the outcry if a democratic president had done such a thing
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 08:33 AM
Jul 2017

Not a peep out of the republican reich wing over their own traitor president though.

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