LAbeathustla Member since Jan 24th 2004 33858 posts
Wed Jul-25-18 11:15 AM
"WH removes Putin support of Trump from transcript and video (swipe)"
aka " Dont believe anything you hear or see"...these mfs really on some authoritarian bullshit. coupled with this mornings news that.. "no future transcripts will be released when Trump communicates with any world leader" ....which just leads to conflict when another country releases an contradictory transcript which is probably facts. We are becoming fucked right before our eyes.
Maddow: White House removed Putin support for Trump from official video, transcript BY JUSTIN WISE - 07/25/18 07:35 AM EDT
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Tuesday said the White House had appeared to delete a question about Russian President Vladimir Putin's support for President Trump in an official video of the leaders' joint press conference in Helsinki, Finland.
“The U.S. government is essentially following the Kremlin’s playbook,” Maddow said on her nightly newscast, pointing to footage the White House posted online and what she called a "real" video of the press conference.
Maddow specifically references a question from Reuters reporter Jeff Mason, who asked Putin if he wanted Trump to win the 2016 presidential election and if he directed any of his officials to interfere in the election to help Trump's campaign.
Putin responds that he did want Trump to win the election because "he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal."
That footage is then contrasted with what the White House posted, which omits the first part of Mason's question. Mason is only seen asking if Putin directed officials to help with election interference.
"They just dropped it out," Maddow said. “What the White House has disappeared from the official U.S. government record of that meeting ... is President Putin answering in the affirmative when asked if he wanted Trump to win the election,” Maddow said.
The Atlantic was the first news outlet to point out the differences. Maddow adds that the Russian government's transcript from the event nixes Mason's question completely.
“At least the White House had the courtesy to leave in half of his question so you can get a misleading answer,” Maddow then said.
The comments from Maddow came about a week after Trump and Putin met for a high-stakes summit, one in which the president drew bipartisan criticism for his refusal to denounce Russian election interference.
On Monday, Trump said he was concerned Russia may interfere in the upcoming midterm elections to help the Democrats.
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