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A Kremlin official said today that, despite WH denials, during the G20 `Trump met with Putin without a translator or any US officials & discussed Syria policy.

Three weeks later, Trump abruptly ordered US troops to withdraw from Syria.
by @RVAwonk #Maddow bit.ly/2MD62EA
Trump's meeting with Putin was not brief, nor just a casual conversation. It included discussions about substantive issues such as the conflict in Syria. Putin was accompanied by a translator. Trump, meanwhile, was accompanied only by Melania.
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Details of Trump's private meeting with Putin [with no US translator or note-taker] at the Nov 2018 G20 were leaked by the Kremlin just as the Russian govt is publicly expressing anger with the Trump admin's position on recent events in Venezuela.
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Trump regularly conceals his communications with Putin, blocking even his own officials from knowing what he tells a main adversary of the US. In May 2017, the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump is an agent of Russia.
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Russian Direct Investment Fund, whose CEO Kirill Dmitriev met with Erik Prince in the Seychelles? RDIF is a subsidiary of VEB Bank, whose CEO met with Jared Kushner in Dec 2016.
Recall, then-Trump transition team member Anthony Scaramucci also met with Russian Direct Investment Fund [RDIF] CEO Kirill Dmitriev at Davos, one week after Erik Prince's Seychelles' meeting with Dmitriev.
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"...discovery materials in the defense’s [Internet Research Agency] possession appear to have been altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the US political system."

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Mueller told a federal judge that more than 1,000 confidential files compiled in his case against the Internet Research Agency had somehow found their way on to the internet and widely disseminated, in defiance of the judge’s order.
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SCOOP: In 2015, Wikistrat [owned by Psy Group's Joel Zamel who in 2016 pitched Don Jr a cyber plan to get Trump elected] gamed out a Russian meddling scenario eerily similar to exactly what happened in the 2016 campaign.
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In Aug 2016, after Trump became the GOP nominee, Psy Group's Joel Zamel met with Don Jr and pitched a "plan," which echoed real election interference already underway by the Kremlin and the scenario which Zamel's Wikistrat had gamed out in 2015.
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A Kremlin official said today that, despite what the WH claimed, Trump & Putin had a sit-down meeting at the G-20 summit, during which they discussed Syria policy.

Three weeks after G-20, Trump abruptly ordered US troops to withdraw from Syria.

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