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There's no recording of Trump's talk with Putin because Trump's team turned off the recorder
Just another case of DT saying "fuck you" to the citizens of America.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/2/1629090/-There-s-no-recording-of-Trump-s-talk-with-Putin-because-Trump-s-team-turned-off-the-recorder
One of the great questions of the Donald Trump "presidency" has been to what extent members of his campaign team worked with Russian officials or go-betweens in their attempt to get the already-unstable, already-incompetent authoritarian-minded bumbler elected to the lead the most powerful democracy in the world. We know of multiple campaign staffers who met with Russian officials over the last few years. We know of payments to several of those staffers. We were told by a foreign intelligence investigator of numerous alleged links between Trump, Trump's team, and Russia, from blackmail to business ties. And we know it's the subject of an active American investigationunless Team Trump scuttled that investigation and the FBI obligingly listened.
So in a presidency that's already being compared to Nixon's on a daily basis and by people who were there, this is a real humdinger.
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 Trumps 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.
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There's no recording of Trump's talk with Putin because Trump's team turned off the recorder (Original Post)
Bill USA
Feb 2017
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would this be grounds for impeachment? Not that the slimeball Republicans would do it.
raccoon
Feb 2017
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gopiscrap
(23,726 posts)1. Isn't that illegal?
gopiscrap
(23,726 posts)4. that's what I thought
Fearless
(18,421 posts)6. It violates the Freedom of Information Act
raccoon
(31,105 posts)8. would this be grounds for impeachment? Not that the slimeball Republicans would do it.
I don't think they'd do it if he wandered naked around the WH lawn.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)10. If a blow job can be....
Tanuki
(14,914 posts)2. That sort of thing used to be frowned upon.
gopiscrap
(23,726 posts)5. this is what I what think of also
he must be related to Rosemary Woods
raccoon
(31,105 posts)7. Love that magazine cover. Oh, and if a Democrat had done this, they would be crucified. nt
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)9. Trump tramples all over the constitution and no one can stop him.
It seems Trump can ignore law and the GOP congress will support his illegal activities.
raccoon
(31,105 posts)11. Those who could stop him (GOP Congress) don't make much of an effort to. nt