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TRUMP WAS 'AIDING AND ABETTING' RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE BY ALLEGEDLY ASKING HIS INTERPRETER TO CONCEAL NOTES, NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERT SAYS


BY JASON LEMON ON 1/13/19 AT 1:34 PM


CNN national security analyst Samantha Vinograd has suggested that President Donald Trump aided and abetted Russian intelligence by allegedly taking his interpreter’s notes from a 2017 meeting with Vladimir Putin, and also ordering the linguist not to discuss the talks with other members of his administration.

The Washington Post reported this weekend that Trump has gone to “extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations” with his Russian counterpart. “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,” the newspaper reported.

Discussing the report on CNN’s New Day program on Sunday morning, Vinograd, who served as a national security expert within the administration of Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama, said special counsel Robert Mueller no doubt took notice of the report and could investigate further. She also pointed out that the president’s actions fell well outside of normal protocols.




“There is a standard operating procedure for these meetings,” Vinograd explained. “I helped with some of these meetings after the fact. By failing to allow your team in the room, by failing to establish a firm record in line with existing U.S. law of what actually happened, you are ceding the narrative to Russian intelligence and Vladimir Putin without having any bit of evidence or a foundation of establishing a narrative on your own,” she said.


https://www.newsweek.com/trump-aiding-abetting-russian-intelligence-national-security-expert-1289491