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2/ Not even spies do this—this is dumb, evil collusion.

"Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Putin, including taking his interpreter's notes and instructing a linguist not to discuss what transpired with administration officials."
3/ Trump met privately with Putin and Tillerson in Hamburg in July '17. Then the press started prying into what was said. Then Trump's Middle Eastern allies began using proxies—e.g. Broidy—to get Trump to fire Tillerson. Did they decide Tillerson wasn't loyal enough post-Hamburg?
4/ When a White House spokesman asserts that Tillerson "gave a fulsome readout of the [Trump-Putin Hamburg] meeting immediately afterward to other U.S. officials in a private setting, as well as a readout to the press," you have to at least *wonder*, was Trump *happy* about that?
5/ Trump handled Helsinki differently from Hamburg. Why?

"It's not clear if Trump has taken notes from interpreters on other occasions, but officials say they never got a reliable readout of Trump's Helsinki meeting. Unlike Hamburg, he allowed no officials or aides in the room."
6/ Anyway, Trump's Middle Eastern allies had several reasons to want Tillerson gone—don't get me wrong—but I just find the time overlap interesting, i.e. Tillerson had special access to a Trump-Putin summit and almost immediately Trump's Middle East allies want Tillerson *gone*.
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Seth Abramson
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Amazing that he couldn't even use proper grammar in answering the most important question of his life.

❎ "I never worked for Russia."
🆗️ "I've never worked for Russia."
2/ And his big denial doesn't even cover what he's *really* accused of—as what's at issue here is whether he's worked "with" Russia rather than "for" Russia. Not that anyone should believe him anyway, but this is what he should've said:

🆗️ "I've never coordinated with Russia."
3/ And of course the use of the word "Russia" here is inaccurate, as what we're speaking of is Putin's Kremlin, and more specifically than even that, *agents* of Putin's Kremlin. So what he *really* should've said is:

🆗️ "I've never coordinated with agents of Putin's Kremlin."
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Seth Abramson
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Trump fired Comey. Trump's campaign NatSec chief, Sessions, fired McCabe. Baker and Page *chose* to leave the FBI. Strzok was fired *despite* recommendations he get a small suspension. *Any* media reference to how these folks left the FBI without these facts is pro-Trump disinfo.
2/ I've said before and will say again that FBI employees whose errors at the FBI were a) minor, and b) not malicious got fired by Trump or his people *precisely* so that Trump could use this information down the line to smear lifelong public servants. Media is letting him do it.
3/ Donald Trump *orchestrated* the firing and libel of lifelong public servants as part of a campaign of criminal obstruction of justice, and now he is *crowing* about what he did on Twitter daily with media simply putting his tweets up on the screen without comment. It's insane.
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Seth Abramson
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KEY CLARIFICATION #1: Based on how Trump (via his lawyer Rudy Giuliani) has defined "collusion"—that is, to mean *only* "conspiring directly with the Kremlin to hack the DNC"—when Trump says "no collusion," he's *literally* only denying 5% of what would be considered "collusion."
KEY CLARIFICATION #2: When media says we don't know if Trump was a "witting" colluder, they *mean* we don't know if he was "wittingly" a Kremlin *agent*. We *know* he "wittingly" *coordinated* with the Kremlin—see e.g. promoting Papadopoulos after learning he was a Kremlin agent.
KEY CLARIFICATION #3: The FBI having concluded—based on "specific and articulable facts"—that there was a reasonable suspicion in May 2017 to believe Trump was a witting or unwitting Russian asset means *everyone* who said that at the time was exhibiting FBI-level case awareness.
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"Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations w Putin, including @ least 1 occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter & instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired"

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NEW: Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations w/ Putin, including on at least 1 occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter.

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