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On secret chats with Vladimir Putin, Trump changes his tune
Last week, Donald Trump denied that he and Russia's Vladimir Putin have spoken in recent years. This week, his position is ... different.
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As Trump changes his tune about secret chats with Putin, there's no shortage of related questions, including:
Did Trump offer briefings to U.S. intelligence agencies and the State Department after the conversations? (I have a hunch we know the answer.)
Did Trump offer briefings to U.S. intelligence agencies and the State Department after the conversations? (I have a hunch we know the answer.)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/secret-chats-vladimir-putin-trump-changes-tune-rcna175665
That was last week. This week, Trump’s line was noticeably different. NBC News reported:
To be sure, that wasn’t an explicit confirmation, but given the comments, the qualifiers and the tone in which he made the comments, it’s hardly a stretch to think the allegations raised in Woodward’s book are credible.
......As NBC News reported, the Democratic nominee said Trump is someone who “admire[s] dictators” and, during the height of the pandemic, sent “covid tests that nobody could get to the president of Russia for his personal use, when Black people were dying every day by the hundreds.”
“The number of people who lost their grandparents and parents, remember what that was like?” she continued. “People were scrambling for the resources and needed tests, and Donald Trump secretly sent covid tests to the president of Russia.”
This controversy is far from over.
At an event at the Economic Club of Chicago with Bloomberg News, Trump said he wouldn’t comment on whether or not he called Putin multiple times after he left office. “Well, I don’t comment on that, but I will tell you that if I did, it’s a smart thing,” he said. “If I’m friendly with people. If I can have a relationship with people, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing in terms of a country.”
To be sure, that wasn’t an explicit confirmation, but given the comments, the qualifiers and the tone in which he made the comments, it’s hardly a stretch to think the allegations raised in Woodward’s book are credible.
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......As NBC News reported, the Democratic nominee said Trump is someone who “admire[s] dictators” and, during the height of the pandemic, sent “covid tests that nobody could get to the president of Russia for his personal use, when Black people were dying every day by the hundreds.”
“The number of people who lost their grandparents and parents, remember what that was like?” she continued. “People were scrambling for the resources and needed tests, and Donald Trump secretly sent covid tests to the president of Russia.”
This controversy is far from over.
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