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When Putin raised the possibility of extending the 2010 treaty, known as New START, Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was, these sources said.
Trump then told Putin the treaty was one of several bad deals negotiated by the Obama administration, saying that New START favored Russia. Trump also talked about his own popularity, the sources said.
The White House declined to comment. It referred Reuters to the official White House account issued after the Jan. 28 call, which did not mention the discussion about New START.
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I ran out of facepalms..
The phone call with Putin has added to concerns that Trump is not adequately prepared for discussions with foreign leaders.
Typically, before a telephone call with a foreign leader, a president receives a written in-depth briefing paper drafted by National Security Council staff after consultations with the relevant agencies, including the State Department, Pentagon and intelligence agencies, two former senior officials said.
Just before the call, the president also usually receives an oral "pre-briefing" from his national security adviser and top subject-matter aide, they said.
Trump did not receive a briefing from Russia experts with the NSC and intelligence agencies before the Putin call, two of the sources said.
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)Yes, not even facepalms can adequately express
HipChick
(25,485 posts)he does not read...
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)People who know him will tell you, if they are allowed to (WH workers cant tell the truth, he will sue them) that Donald Trump is completely clueless about everything in the world.
Knows nothing about business, which is obvious due to all his failures and bankruptcies, that any success he has is due to people who work for him and his routine manner of not paying vendors, contractors, employees.
Cant read a contract to save his life.