No record what Trump and Putin talked... because he turned off the recorder.

[DetlefK]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/2/1629090/-There-s-no-recording-of-Trump-s-talk-with-Putin-because-Trump-s-team-turned-off-the-recorder

Ilan Berman, vice president of the conservative American Foreign Policy Council think tank, reported that the White House turned off its recording equipment during President Donald Trump’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

While Donald Trump was talking to the world leader known by American intelligence officers to have worked to assist Trump's rise to the presidency, Trump's White House turned off the recorder.

This would be why the White House "readout" of the call consisted of a one-sentence summary of the call's supposed contents. The Kremlin crafted a more detailed version, and so our American understanding of the events will rely entirely on Vladimir Putin's commitment to disclosure and accuracy. From our end, there's nothing.

There's no explanation for this. There's no "oops, our secretary's finger slipped and she erased it" or "Have you seen the price of reel-to-reel tapes these days? Donald Trump isn't made of money." There's nothing. There's simply no recording of what the two talked about, at least on our end, in Donald's call to the one and only world leader the ever-insulting Trump has never, ever had an unkind word for.

If Trump is trying to look like a puppet for the Putin regime, he could not possibly do a better job.

[dalton99a]

1. There is much to hide

as before

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. And it must be enormous!

The whole team is out buying tarps!

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. You can bet that Putin recorded every word.

Watch what Trumpy does, eh? What he DID was refuse due diligence. He talked with a world leader and antagonist to the US and he didn't record the conversation for analysis at a later date???

W.T.F.???

Recording Putin's conversation is a function of safeguarding the PUBLIC TRUST! Bannon made sure that nothing was preserved BECAUSE 1. Both Bannon and Trumpy KNOW that Putin has his arm up Trumpy's ass, and want NOTHING on record that can even cast a hint of blackmail. 2. President Bannon is intentionally executing a policy that projects a "siege" mentality. We have group paranoia in the White House.

[2naSalit]

4. +1

He has already lifted some of the sanctions re: business transactions with Russian entities after that call, so...

[logosoco]

5. WHy is it when I read of his I thought of

Nixon and have a vague memory of a photo of some secretary showing how the old 1970s era tape recorder could be shut off?