Schiff: Reports Of Undisclosed Second Trump-Putin Meeting ‘Deeply Troubling’

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to reporters about the actions of Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., as the panel continues to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the possible link to President Donald Trump's campaign, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 24, 2017.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to reporters about the actions of Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., as the panel continues to investigate Russian interference ... Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to reporters about the actions of Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., as the panel continues to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the possible link to President Donald Trump's campaign, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 24, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that reports President Donald Trump attended a second, previously undisclosed meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin are “deeply troubling.”

“I don’t think there’s anything normal about the President having an hour-long meeting with Vladimir Putin outside the presence of any American witness, anyone on his staff, any high-ranking National Security Council people, to know what the President said, what the President represented,” Schiff said on CNN.

Several outlets reported late Tuesday that Trump and Putin had a second, informal meeting at the G20 summit earlier in July in addition to their official bilateral meeting. According to the Washington Post, Putin was accompanied by his official interpreter and Trump was alone when the U.S. President left his place at a dinner at the conference to sit beside and speak to Putin for an hour.

“You have the prospect here of the most isolated ruler in the G20, that is Putin, now with the second most isolated leader, and regrettably that is our President,” Schiff said. “So these two isolated leaders on the world stage making common cause in a way that is not being witnessed by any of our national security officials, and that’s deeply troubling.”

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  1. What’s to be done? That’s the overriding question.

  2. I can do without the members being “concerned,” “deeply troubled,” etc.

  3. Dude, ‘troubled’ is a word Republicans use when they aren’t going to do anything but want the voters to think they give a shit. Don’t use that one.

  4. My first thought when I saw that
    WTF
    We need a little Anthony Weiner or Allan Grayson rhetoric
    Donald Trump is in unreported meetings with A Russian Leader with no other US state department people or even one other American!
    What is going on? No transcripts? Back Room Deals ?
    He is totally irresponsible

  5. Trump: That meeting was with Putin as a private person. No one needs to know, not even my lawyers. I am ok with KGB knowing it all.

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