Trumps national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin. He did it anyway.

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Source: CNN





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Trump says he called to congratulate Russia's Putin on election win

President Trump also said that he will discuss what he described as an "arms race" with President Putin. (The Washington Post)
By Carol D. Leonnig, David Nakamura and Josh Dawsey March 20 at 7:15 PM Email the author

President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Russian President Vladi­mir Putin Tuesday on his reelection, including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating “DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” according to officials familiar with the call.

Trump also chose not to heed talking points from aides instructing him to condemn Putin about the recent poisoning of a former Russian spy in the United Kingdom with a powerful nerve agent, a case that both the British and U.S. governments have blamed on Moscow.

The president’s conversation with Putin, which Trump called a “very good call,” prompted fresh criticism of his muted tone toward one of the United States’s biggest geopolitical rivals amid the ongoing special counsel investigation into Russia’s election interference and the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials.............................

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-national-security-advisers-warned-him-not-to-congratulate-putin-he-did-it-anyway/2018/03/20/22738ebc-2c68-11e8-8ad6-fbc50284fce8_story.html?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&utm_term=.af4a51da80a0

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[leanforward]

1. He is jeopardizing the health and welfare of the american people

All because he needs their continued investments in his poorly managed businesses.

He needs to stumble down the airstairs as a result of a TIA.

I read somewhere he has a problem with stairs and slopes.

[More_Cowbell]

2. Their mistake was using written instructions

They needed to do something else with our reading-challenged leader. Something along the lines of an interpretive dance, I think.

[DBoon]

6. Too arty

Something like a sales pitch maybe

[noneof_theabove]

3. Only one answer....

He was "instructed" not to do something from top security.

He did it anyway.

TREASON.

PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

IMPEACH HIM NOW ! ! !

[Arkansas Granny]

4. He acts like the child who yells "You're not the boss of me."

[steve2470]

8. exactly nt

[Turbineguy]

5. The Trump Scout Crede:

"Do something stupid every day!"

[RussBLib]

7. that's a good ass-kisser, Donnie

Putin is pleased

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Please don't release the pee tape Vlad