emptywheelOct 8, 2024

As Russia Overtly Helps Trump Get Elected, Trump Continues to Check in with Vladimir Putin

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/08/as-russia-overtly-helps-trump-get-elected-trump-continues-to-check-in-with-vladimir-putin/

As Russia Overtly Helps Trump Get Elected, Trump Continues to Check in with Vladimir Putin - emptywheel

Because Trump has so successfully bullied journalists not to cover the Russia Russia Russia story, Vladimir Putin's clear outreach to Trump this election has gone largely ignored. Now that Bob Woodward has revealed that Trump has spoken with Putin around seven times in since he left office, that needs to change.

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Show threadBodhipaksa
@emptywheel I imagine that national security are tapping all calls made to Putin. Hopefully we'll find out at some point the extent of his treason.
Oct 8, 2024 at 6:34pmWeb
Show threadNonya Bidniss 🥥🌴Oct 8, 2024

@bodhipaksa @emptywheel “I would not purport to be aware of all contacts with Putin. I wouldn’t purport to speak to what President Trump may or may not have done,”

Might seem like a curiously convoluted thing to say but of course, calls between the Kremlin / Putin and U.S. numbers are being captured.

Show threadBodhipaksaOct 8, 2024
@Nonya_Bidniss @emptywheel Yes, that's a beautiful piece of non-denial!