Washington – Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are asking Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to provide the panel with the translator’s notes and other materials from President Donald Trump’s Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The senators have requested any cable traffic, memos, notes and policy directives related to the July summit, when Trump and Putin met privately for more than two hours with only translators present. The White House has not provided information on what was said, and even Trump’s director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, has said he does not know what happened in the room.
In a letter sent to the State Department Friday morning, the Foreign Relations Committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire said the situation requires “urgent congressional oversight.”
“Russian officials have taken advantage of the lack of communication by the White House to circulate their own, possibly false, readouts of what occurred in this private meeting,” the senators wrote.
Trump drew widespread criticism from Republican and Democratic leaders for his performance in Helsinki on July 16. At a joint press conference with Putin, Trump spoke favorably of the Russian leader and denied U.S. intelligence findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
Trump’s statements fueled calls from Democrats for testimony from the American translator who was in the private meeting. Republicans shot down the idea and in the House blocked a Democratic request to issue a subpoena.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, said seeking the translator’s testimony “does not seem to be to me the appropriate place for us to go.”
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert on July 18 said they had not been able to find a precedent for an interpreter being called to testify.
who was the translator for the Kenyan his Kerry and his Persian son in law when they gave money to Iran for terror?
In his meeting with Russians in 2017 Trump burned an Israeli secret agent to impress Putin’s cronies. He was trying to show how important he is.At least that meeting was public, as was whatever illiterate word salad meeting about which you bigotedly scrawled above. Since Trump’s meeting with his handler in Helsinki was private and Americans still don’t know what information he might have given away, (this dotard who thinks F-35 fighters are invisible) we are entitled to know how much of the store he gave away.
And read an actual book some time, you might learn something. And soon you’ll change your screen name to trumpinouthouse
The white ought to answer the DemocRATs “geits alle kaken oifen yam”
Nixon had no personal enemies. It was all political. Republicans vs Democrats. Lets see. Trump has most Republicans insulted etc. His attorney General just this week lectured him. His closest advisors/friend of 50 years David Packer, Allen Weisselberg and Cohen are all now cooperating with the Feds. NYS just started its own investigation. “2/3 to remove a sitting pres.”
1) He might not be one in 2020.
2) Many Republicans ended up against Nixon None were against him in the beginning. Trump has enough Republicans insulted by now.
3) Nixon, Clinton had no State Crimes (NYS just started give the a year or two)
4) 18 months and his own justice dept charged his lawyer with a crime. Cohen named him as a partner in crime. It does not matter what you or I think if it was a crime or not. You and me might think that Rubashkin, Pollard or Nixon was innocent the Courts ruled otherwise.