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[link:https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/white-house-restricted-trump-calls-putin-saudi/index.html|
Washington (CNN)White House efforts to limit access to President Donald Trump's conversations with foreign leaders extended to phone calls with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, according to people familiar with the matter.
Those calls -- both with leaders who maintain controversial relationships with Trump -- were among the presidential conversations that aides took remarkable steps to keep from becoming public.
In the case of Trump's call with Prince Mohammed, officials who ordinarily would have been given access to a rough transcript of the conversation never saw one, according to one of the sources. Instead, a transcript was never circulated at all, which the source said was highly unusual, particularly after a high-profile conversation.
The call - which the person said contained no especially sensitive national security secrets -- came as the White House was confronting the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which US intelligence assessments said came at the hand of the Saudi government.
With Putin, access to the transcript of at least one of Trump's conversations was also tightly restricted, according to a former Trump administration official.
tblue37
(65,488 posts)DrToast
(6,414 posts)Trump will be told to resign by Senate Republicans. If he doesnt he will be impeached and convicted.
Thats where my money is.
coeur_de_lion
(3,681 posts)DrToast
(6,414 posts)Im just giving it my best guess. I could be wrong!
I just think that as bad as things are now, things are going to get worse, much worse, the more people talk.
coeur_de_lion
(3,681 posts)If things keep moving this fast we could be witnessing what you describe by Christmas.
Early Christmas present.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)H2O Man
(73,605 posts)that needs to be put in quotes, to highlight your mocking of Don, Jr.
coeur_de_lion
(3,681 posts)I like that quotation, and I plan to use it a lot until tRump is out of office.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)coeur_de_lion
(3,681 posts)We're all so caught up in the trump bullshit we even forget to laugh sometimes!
H2O Man
(73,605 posts)Thank you for this! My older son just told me about this report.
Things will continue to build in force over the weekend. The only question is how much will be above the surface, where citizens see and hear about it. But a lot will be going on in the next 48 hours.
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)coeur_de_lion
(3,681 posts)triron
(22,020 posts)Shit, of course they did! How naive is the media anyway? Why don't they just read Seth Abramson's stuff?
Geesh.