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Thoughts on the Translator Secrecy

US President Donald Trump (2L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin wait ahead a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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January 14, 2019 10:27 a.m.
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Let me share a few thoughts about the WaPo report on President Trump going to extraordinary lengths to hide the details of his one-on-one conversations with Vladimir Putin. First, the most obvious point: this simply confirms what we’ve now been discussing for years. The President is hiding something very secret and very damaging about his relationship to Russia and Putin. The possibilities of what that might be we’ve discussed at great length. We don’t need to rehearse them here. But there’s simply no innocent explanation for the totality of this behavior.

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