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NEW: intel & foreign affairs committee lawyers meeting tomorrow to evaluate subpoenaing Trump's interpreters at meetings w/ Putin when no aides present. Many Dems were opposed b/c it's an unprecedented step that could impact future diplomacy. Now warming to it due to WaPo report
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Roland99
(53,342 posts)donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)President Vlad would find that interpreter and maybe not kill them, but would kill their whole family and all their friends! I wouldn't want to be that interpreter!
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)She works at the State Department. Her name is out there.
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)how hard he cucked tRump.
manor321
(3,344 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Have him tell all of what putin said to trump , and what trump said back, and if he was instructed by trup personally to not reveal anything he heard. Then subpoena all the notes he was forced to give trump. If trump can't because he destroyed them he's committed more crimes, destroying government owned materials, and obstructing justice . It'll be exposed in other ways too, he just hasn't figured that out yet.
It's a her, not a him.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)onetexan
(13,050 posts)kskiska
(27,045 posts)maybe at dinner or other times. Putin speaks English.
littlemissmartypants
(22,721 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But I can't see the harm if only intel and certain committees see the notes.
Wonder what was said that Trump wanted destroyed. I can imagine, but I bet reality is worse than my imagination.
triron
(22,009 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)and if those other nations are discussed, it could mean bad news for the world.
Leaders have to be able to discuss things in relative privacy.
Imagine if FDR & Winston Churchill had to release notes of their meetings before America entered WWII. Hopefully, records of those conversations are preserved somewhere and that our intel or Congress knew, but they could never be released publicly fr Hitler to know what was discussed.
littlemissmartypants
(22,721 posts)Why not? I'm sure others here would like to know why not.
Maybe some person could get a copy of them and leak them. Maybe the translator has rewritten her own notes or a personal recollection of the meeting. Perhaps she keeps a diary. I definitely would like to know why they can't be released. I definitely fear for her safety.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)That can't happen. See my other post above.
Example:
"Merkel: Heir Trump, I think we need to discuss possibly taking action against Assad personally.
Trump: You mean...???
Merkel: Yes. We need to see if we can get rid of him, with our other allies' support, of course.
Trump: That would be a dangerous mission. Have you discussed this with Theresa May?
Merkl: Yes. I think we need to call a meeting. Next week, possibly.
Trump: Get with my people and arrange it."
Giving those notes to Assad would not be a good thing, which is what releasing them to the public would do.
orangecrush
(19,587 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)Response to MelissaB (Original post)
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Ramsey Barner
(349 posts)Unless you could somehow show that the conversations were criminal, wouldn't there be a legitimate claim of executive privilege here?
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)Ramsey Barner
(349 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)I'm glad they're going after the important ones. Voting rights and election integrity being most important
Chemisse
(30,814 posts)Other presidents don't meet with hostile heads of state with no other American dignitary present.
Apollyonus
(812 posts)I hope the interpreters are given protection to protect them from polonium or novichok.