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Since the NDTV.com article hyped the 1st Trump-Putin “undisclosed” Meeting like this:
Vladimir Putin's comments came a day after the pair held talks in Hamburg, their first face-to-face encounter
… I thought it might be worth a ‘deeper dive’. Using Date Filters of 07/01/2017 to 08/01/2017 ...
Here is some of what turned up in that Google Search.
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Note: this Hamburg meeting predates the Helsinki Summit (July 16, 2018), which resulted in Donald inviting Vlad into the NSA’s Cyber-war-room, among other “white flag” waving by Trump. Thus earning the summit, its unflattering nickname of “Trump’s Surrender Summit.”
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Dialing back the Google Machine to their first meet-up, where among other things, the Russian Adoptions alibi was agreed upon...
Vladimir Putin has said he thought Donald Trump believed his personal denials of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
In his first televised remarks since the two men held a meeting lasting two hours and 15 minutes, Mr Putin said the US President had asked him a number of questions about Russia’s alleged interference.
Mr Putin said he believed that the journalists would do better to seek Mr Trump’s opinion as to whether he believed his denials. But he added: “He asked questions, I replied. It seemed to me that he was satisfied with the answers.”
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www.independent.co.uk
— 8 July 2017
Believing his own Intel Findings, not so much.
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"The Trump that you see on TV is very different than the real Trump," Mr Putin told reporters at the G20 in Germany.
"He perfectly understands whom he is talking to and answers questions quickly. I think personal relations were established."
Mr Putin said he was positive about repairing US-Russian relations, which plunged during the era of president Barack Obama.
"There is every reason to believe that we will be able to at least partially re-establish the level of cooperation that we need," Mr Putin told a news conference.
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www.ndtv.com
— July 09, 2017
US president Donald Trump has said it was an “honour” to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin for the first time in Hamburg, amid an ongoing US investigation into alleged Russian manipulation of the 2016 presidential election.
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“We have had some very good talks, we will have a talk now and obviously that will continue,” said Mr Trump, seated beside the smiling Russian leader. “We look forward to a lot of very positive things happening: for Russia, for the United States and for everyone concerned. It is an honour to be with you.”
Ahead of the highly-anticipated meeting, also attended by Russian and US foreign ministers, Mr Putin said: “I am delighted to be able to meet you personally, Mr president and I hope our meeting will yield positive results.”
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www.irishtimes.com
— Jul 7, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump told The New York Times Wednesday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed adoption when they huddled on the sidelines of the G20 in Germany last month.
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Adoption — and therefore the correlated sanctions — were also the subject that Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., says was on the agenda when a group of Kremlin-connected officials met with him in Trump Tower last year. Though the younger Trump later disclosed he had expected the Russians to deliver incriminating information about Hillary Clinton, one of the meeting participants — lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya — has been advocating for the United States to rescind its 2012 sanctions, Trump told the Times he was unaware of his son's meeting when he discussed the issue with Putin in Germany.
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www.politico.eu
— 7/20/17
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Describing a newly disclosed informal conversation he had with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a dinner of world leaders in Germany this month, Mr. Trump said they talked for about 15 minutes, mostly about “pleasantries.” But Mr. Trump did say that they talked “about adoption.” Mr. Putin banned American adoptions of Russian children in 2012 after the United States enacted sanctions on Russians accused of human rights abuses, an issue that remains a sore point in relations with Moscow.
Mr. Trump acknowledged that it was “interesting” that adoptions came up since his son, Donald Trump Jr., said that was the topic of a meeting he had with several Russians with ties to the Kremlin during last year’s campaign. Even though emails show that the session had been set up to pass along incriminating information about Hillary Clinton, the president said he did not need such material from Russia about Mrs. Clinton last year because he already had more than enough.
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He noted the adoption issue came up in the June 2016 meeting between his son and Russian visitors. “I actually talked about Russian adoption with him,” he said, meaning Mr. Putin. “Which is interesting because it was a part of the conversation that Don had in that [Trump Tower] meeting.”
But the president repeated that he did not know about his son’s meeting at the time and added that he did not need the Russians to provide damaging information about Mrs. Clinton.
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www.nytimes.com
— July 19, 2017
Interesting. For not knowing anything about Junior’s Trump Tower Meeting (supposedly), Senior was sure a “quick study”. After a few “pointers” from Putin, Trump Sr. was pro-actively dictating Jr’s alibi for that Russian-Meeting, on the plane-ride home. One day after having “some very good talks” with his new ‘honorable’ pal.
Interesting, because White House Lawyer Trump Legal Spokesman Mark Corallo was so disturbed by what he saw and heard on that plane ride home, that he quit immediately afterwards.
Interesting, because that Putin-spun alibi, back-fired on Trump only a few weeks later, when more definitive evidence was uncovered.
Very interesting, because by Donald’s own disclaimers (that he did not know about his son’s meeting at the time), means that he got the Adoption story from Putin. It means the US president used this Putin-fed cover-story to pro-actively LIE to the US Media and the US people.
Because that’s what a Russian-compromised worker-bee does. Whenever the Kingbee says “Jump!”
The worker-bee simply says “No Problem, Sir.”
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About that raging dumpster fire called Helsinki: Trump after doing walk-backs to try to clean-up the GOP’s Messaging disaster — then immediately proceeded to walk-back his walk-backs ...
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And if Helsinki was fresh kindling for a raging fire, Trump poured even more fuel on it Sunday night. With the click of a button, he tweeted that "Russia" -- shorthand for the Russian interference campaign in 2016 -- was "all a big hoax."
He seemed to be contradicting his own claims that he believes US intelligence.
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"It's bewildering, why the president would go back and call this a hoax," veteran political analyst David Gergen said on CNN.
Clean up on GOP-aisle 1600 needed. Still.
Putin must be so pleased.
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