Trump Admits To Sharing ‘Facts’ With Top Russian Officials

US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed Vladimir Putin's top d... US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed Vladimir Putin's top diplomat to the White House for Trump's highest level face-to-face contact with a Russian government official since he took office in January. (Russian Foreign Ministry Photo via AP) MORE LESS
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President Trump early Tuesday admitted that he shared “facts” with Russian officials, a day after the Washington Post and others reported that the President passed on highly classified info to the Russian foreign minister and Russia’s ambassador to U.S. during a meeting in the Oval Office.

Trump said he had the “absolute right” to share the information.

During the Oval Office meeting last week — which occurred amid the fallout over the President’s firing of FBI Director James Comey — Trump reportedly shared information about an ISIS threat, that was obtained from an American intelligence partner, according to the Washington Post.

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  1. “May his days be numbered…”

  2. Why the criticisms, folks? Trump is so dumb he openly brags he shares our secrets with his Russian spymasters. A more clever traitor (like Flynn, for example) would secretly sell out US intelligence contacts and assets.

    MAGA

  3. Hey McMaster, how’d that bus look when it ran over you? Care to clarify just how the WaPo story was “false”?

    Your official membership card will be arriving in the mail shortly

  4. Malcolm Nance check in ;



    Active measures are acts of war.


    Hey Malcolm, thank you for your service. And look an the bright side. McMaster had the decency to not lie for the President in front of the show media while still wearing his uniform. He at least had that.

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