“Is there some strategy behind creating doubt in U.S. senators’ minds, on both sides of the aisle, doubt in the American people as to what his motivations are?” added Corker, a frequent critic of Trump.
Non-public readouts will still be distributed to agencies but press will reportedly be told only certain details of the calls.
Traditionally, both US and foreign heads of state post brief readouts of their conversations after calls.
The White House has not offered reasons for the largely symbolic change.’
“The president believes that the next bilateral meeting with President Putin should take place after the Russia witch hunt is over, so we’ve agreed that it will be after the first of the year,” Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, John R. Bolton, said in a statement.
The ruling, from U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte in Greenbelt, Md., will allow the plaintiffs in the case — the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia — to proceed with their case, which says Trump has violated the Constitution’s little-used emoluments clause.’
Solid listen and explanation of the Cohen tape. These are crimes.
‘The first of Michael Cohen’s secretly recorded TrumpTapes which caught Republican candidate Trump discussing a felony scheme to evade federal campaign finance laws to funnel hush money to his former mistress, Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal through the National Enquirer tabloid.’https://goo.gl/CDnUrq
‘In his latest position on Russian election interference, President Trump now claims Russia will interfere in the 2018 midterms — to help Democrats.’
‘The Kremlin was reticent on Tuesday about whether it would accept an invitation from U.S. President Donald Trump to hold a summit with Vladimir Putin in Washington later this year, saying only that the two men had other chances to meet as well.’
