House Dems Mull Subpoenaing Notes, Interpreter From Trump-Putin Meeting

US President Donald Trump (R) looks at Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they take their places for a family photo, during the G20 Leaders' Summit in Buenos Aires, on November 30, 2018. - Global leaders gather in ... US President Donald Trump (R) looks at Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they take their places for a family photo, during the G20 Leaders' Summit in Buenos Aires, on November 30, 2018. - Global leaders gather in the Argentine capital for a two-day G20 summit beginning on Friday likely to be dominated by simmering international tensions over trade. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS

House Democrats are considering actions they could take to learn what was discussed during President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s private meeting in Helsinki last year, Axios reported.

According to a Democratic member of Congress who reportedly spoke to D.C. reporters on Tuesday, House Democrats are considering “subpoenaing the notes or subpoenaing the interpreter or other steps.”

The White House never revealed what the two world leaders discussed during their two-hour, staff-free — except for interpreters — closed door meeting during a summit in Helsinki last summer.

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  1. We have a fake president who likes secret meetings with our enemies.

    What did he give to Putin?

  2. So would this move trigger an executive privilege battle royale between Flood or some other toadie and the forces of all that is right in front of a tainted and tilted SCOTUS?

  3. Not sure about this one. Be better for the intelligence agencies to question the interpreter. Would we want a Republican Congress to subpoena the interpreter for a Democratic president? I wouldn’t.

  4. Donnie- Vlad, I have these terrible nightmares in which everything we did gets discovered and me, Don Jr, Erik, Ivanka, Barron, and Melania do not make it to the Russian safe house.

    Vlad- I too have dreams like this sometimes. But then I think, Josef Stalin died in his bed, sleeping…is a very reassuring thought…

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