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Post by Willing Sniper on Feb 2, 2017 10:30:07 GMT -8
Foreign policy insider: No transcript of Trump-Putin call
‘because White House turned off recording’ Tom Cahill | February 2, 2017
Normally, when presidents call world leaders, a recording is made publicly available. But Donald Trump’s call with Vladimir Putin was different. On Saturday, President Trump and Russian President Putin had an hour-long call. However, a readout of the call is currently unavailable, as Trump purposefully turned off the recording equipment on the White House line. The only record of the call is a 10-paragraph summary from the Kremlin, and a one-paragraph boilerplate statement from the Trump White House. Turkish journalist Ilhan Tanir tweeted from a panel discussion at the Bipartisan Policy Center, quoting American Foreign Policy Council Vice President Ilan Berman, who confirmed that no readout of the call between Trump and Putin exists specifically because recording equipment was disabled for the call. The fact that the White House turned off recording for Trump’s call with Putin is very curious, given that Russia is a global superpower, and having a recording of the call between the President of the United States and the leader of Russia would be of great geopolitical importance for U.S. allies, along with being of significant interest to the American public. The impression the lack of transparency gives certainly won’t assuage concerns voiced by Democrats that Russia had an interest in electing Donald Trump as president. An investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee probing Trump’s ties to Russia is currently underway. Source |
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Post by Willing Sniper on Feb 2, 2017 11:42:01 GMT -8
Putin will get ridiculous money from Exxon drilling and rebuild the soviet union and take over all of eastern Europe
Trump will pull out of NATO. And give putty a free pass for money and power. We're fucked
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