,
3 tweets,
1 min read
Read on Twitter
As important, perhaps more important than the translator notes is that that meeting w Tillerson and Putin wasn’t enough for Trump. He felt the need for a SECOND meeting at the gala dinner that evening at which no Americans were present at all. That was a lengthy meeting.
2/ As I explain here, there’s a decent circumstantial argument that at that truly private meeting, Putin helped him concoct the cover story he gave the Times the next day in response to the then breaking Trump Tower meeting story. (Sub req) talkingpointsmemo.com/prime-beta/did…
3/ Relevant point Trump felt the need to have an additional meeting with Putin with no Americans at all. Not even a translator. They used Putin’s.
