The White House sought to limit access to conversations President Trump had with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to CNN.
A person familiar with the matter told the outlet that officials who would have ordinarily been given access to a rough transcript were not provided one and that a transcript was never circulated after the call with Mohammed was complete. The source told CNN the call did not contain sensitive national security interests.
Officials also tightly restricted access to a transcript for at least one of Trump’s conversations with Putin.
The news came after a declassified whistleblower complaint revealed that the White House sought to bury a transcript of a call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he pushed Kiev to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, one of Trump’s top political rivals.
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JUST IN: White House sought to keep Trump calls with Putin, Saudi crown prince from public: report https://t.co/Ergpp0Aa7X pic.twitter.com/62eWzampoU
— The Hill (@thehill) September 27, 2019
Two and one half years they have known this.
Two and one half years this corpulent grifter and his henchmen have played three-card monty with the America public while committing crime after crime after crime.
He must resign. https://t.co/7P9XbrdTBw
— Lynn Pounian (@Panger2019) September 28, 2019
Saying this in private and keeping it a secret is the definition of compromised https://t.co/jQHBW3cJge
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) September 28, 2019
– Years of dirty deals with the Russians compromises Trump
– A scared Trump tells the Russians he won't look into their attack on us
– This comment is kept secret but is known to the Russians, which further compromises Trump.It's all a circle of accountability, you see.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 28, 2019
I'm thinking that some of the old pieces that were run defending Trump and excusing everything with the Russians as "Deep State" fakery aren't going to age well.
And by "old" pieces, I mean "from this morning."
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 28, 2019
There is a kind of karmic hilarity to the fact that in order to protect Trump, his staff centralized the materials that could doom him in a highly classified system that can't be erased or manipulated without a record of access by a very small number of people.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 28, 2019
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