Kremlin says it hopes US wouldn't release Trump-Putin calls

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Source: Associated Press

Kremlin says it hopes US wouldn’t release Trump-Putin calls

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
September 27, 2019

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia voiced hope Friday that the U.S. administration wouldn’t publish private conversations between the two nations’ presidents, like it did with Ukraine.

The rough transcript of Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy released by the White House Wednesday shows that Trump urged Ukraine to “look into” his Democratic political rival Joe Biden. The July 25 call is now the focus of a U.S. impeachment probe.

Asked if Moscow is worried that the White House could similarly publish transcripts of Trump’s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “we would like to hope that it wouldn’t come to that in our relations, which are already troubled by a lot of problems.”

Speaking in a conference call with reporters, he emphasized that the publication of the Trump-Zelenskiy call is an internal U.S. issue, but added that it was “quite unusual” to release a confidential call between leaders.

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1. LOL, what? Are they saying this so that Congress digs into those calls, too?

Do they think that this statement will make it less likely that they get looked at?

I'm pretty sure that memcon's of those calls have been hidden away as Top Secret as well.