Campaign Adviser On Aide’s Proposal To Meet With Putin: Trump ‘Heard Him Out’

FILE - In this July 7, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany. Six months into his presidency, Donald Trump has made cl... FILE - In this July 7, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany. Six months into his presidency, Donald Trump has made clear who he considers to be his friends, and his foes, on the international stage. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) MORE LESS

President Donald Trump listened when a campaign adviser floated the idea of arranging a meeting between the then-candidate Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according a former campaign national security adviser JD Gordon.

“He heard him out,” Gordon told CNN on Thursday of the March 31, 2016 meeting in which foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos suggested the encounter.

Gordon’s account of the meeting falls in line with multiple reports that the President didn’t rule out the suggestion, but he didn’t agree to it either. Then-Alabama senator and now Attorney General Jeff Sessions reportedly shut down the suggestion, according to several reports.

The President himself said he has little memory of the meeting with Papadopoulos, telling reporters Friday that it “took place a long time (ago), don’t remember much about it.”

In October, Papdopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials, according to recently unsealed court documents, which also reveal that Papadopoulos told Trump and his advisers that he could help arrange a meeting with the then-candidate and Putin.

Since the Papadopoulos findings from special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe came out Monday, Trump and the White House have worked to distance the President from his former foreign policy adviser, with Trump calling him a “low level volunteer,” a “liar” and even a mere “coffee boy.”

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  1. So the guy with the “BEST” memory just doesn’t remember all those times?

  2. Since Trump has little to no memory of what happened at this meeting, he is in no position to contradict what this adviser says.

  3. If Mueller deposes Trump he’ll have to ask him why the amazing memory he credits himself as having always seems to fail when critical recall of something of import is required.

  4. Seems he’s already lining up his “I can’t recall/I have no recollection of that” defense.

    Won’t work and Tramp’s too much of a fucking moron to realize that almost anyone can get him talking about anything with just a little pancake, a golden chair, a mic and a camera.

  5. To be fair, his memory is a long as his…um…fingers.

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