Foreign policy insider: 'No readout of Trump-Putin call because White House turned off recording'

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory



DAVID EDWARDS
02 FEB 2017 AT 11:21 ET

Ian 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. Following the call with Putin on Saturday, the Kremlin published a readout of the hour-long conversation that suggested the Russian president was pleased with Trump’s tone.

“During the conversation, both sides expressed their readiness to make active joint efforts to stabilise and develop Russia-US cooperation on a constructive, equitable and mutually beneficial basis,” the Kremlin statement said.

But while the Kremlin produced a detailed 10-paragraph readout of the call, the White House released only a vague Link to tweet
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During a Wednesday forum on Russian-Turkish relations at the Bipartisan Policy Center, Berman suggested that the White House could not provide additional details about the call because staff had disabled recording equipment, according to Turkish journalist Ilhan Tanir.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/foreign-policy-insider-no-readout-of-trump-putin-call-because-white-house-turned-off-recording/

[highplainsdem]

1. Glad to see the media finally picking this up.

I posted about it in GD hours ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028583486

after running across Tanir's tweet. I couldn't find anything more on it then, no reaction from the media to such interesting information tweeted yesterday.

[Raine1967]

2. Is that legal?

Wasn't there a law passed after Nixon to require these things be preserved?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Recordings_and_Materials_Preservation_Act

[hollowdweller]

13. Wow. After he made such a big deal about the deleted emails.

[groundloop]

14. Of course it's legal, laws don't apply to repubs (and especially not tRump)

[Botany]

3. When does this all stop?

Treason
The betrayal of one's own country by waging war against it or by consciously or purposely acting to aid its enemies.

[GliderGuider]

10. It doesn't

At least not until the nation is crippled or "positive action" is taken against the administration.

This is literally a war, and will end the way all wars end - with either victory or defeat after much bloodshed.

[LiberalLoner]

19. +1

[Maven]

4. OMG. We have an agent of an unfriendly foreign dictatorship in the Oval Office

How do we end this madness

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. WE cant as long as the republican party and rank and file dont care if we have

an enemy running things.

Clearly we need patriots, their side appears to no longer have any.

Maybe McCain will look in the mirror soon and do something so he can keep the mirror.

[WheelWalker]

5. I believe the Spoliation Doctrine would apply

[link:http://federalevidence.com/blog/2010/november/seventh-circuit-elements-evidence-spoliation|

[perdita9]

6. Should I start stocking up on supplies?

Are we about to be taken over from the inside? Is Trump going to get us into a war?

A month ago I would have scoffed at these fears. Now I'm not so sure

[davekriss]

16. We already are "taken over from the inside"

[Raine1967]

7. If true, he broke the Presidential Records act:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Records_Act

I hope a FOIA request is issued.

[groundloop]

15. Not sure about that, he may have a loophole

I just looked up the Presidential Records Act, it says that all presidential and vice-presidential records must be preserved. Since someone switched off the recorder there is no record to preserve (or at least I'm sure that what tRump's reasoning will be).

[RegexReader]

28. you'll get a blank tape

back as a response since it wasn't used.

[UCmeNdc]

8. Did he just break the law?

How does this guy do it? He seems to ignore the law with impunity.

[Javaman]

9. this is getting down right nixionian. nt

[GliderGuider]

11. This situation is far, far worse than anything Nixon ever did. nt

[LiberalLoner]

20. +1

[Javaman]

25. no kidding, but the deleting or not recording of things...

you would think that even the moron repukes would know better by now.

just boggles the mind.

[GliderGuider]

27. It's not that they don't know better.

This is all deliberate. Especially not keeping a paper trail. They're traveling light, moving fast and not leaving footprints.

[mobeau69]

12. The Ghost of Rose Mary Woods?

[Stonepounder]

17. I'm beginning to believe that, as far as the GOP is concerned, Trump's boast that

he could shoot someone in the middle of Broadway in broad daylight and get away with it is all too true.

[Vinca]

18. They probably talked about the conditions Trump needs to meet to continue to fund his empire.

Vlad can kick the house of cards down in an instant and Der Fuhrer knows it. Just heard sanctions on Russia are being eased. More proof Trump's loyalties lie with Putin and not this country.

[mopinko]

21. hopefully the cia was listening.

[avebury]

22. I bet that the conversation was recorded on Putin's end.

Now if we can get someone to get ahold of a copy and give it to the media.

[ffr]

23. That could be a violation of the President Records Act. Certainly a cover-up.

This wreaks of corruption!

Our dictator's adminstration is out of control!

[BadgerMom]

24. Not suspicious at all

Nothing to hear here, for sure. /s