A Damning New Timeline Argues Trump's Collusion Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Don’t forget about Russia.
President Trump’s scheme to hold 800,000 federal employees hostage over border wall funding has dominated news coverage since the government began operating under a partial shutdown on December 21st, but Special Counsel Robert Mueller is still busy looking into his campaign’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. So is the media. On Friday, the New York Times reported that after Trump fired James Comey in May 2017, the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation to determine whether the president was working on behalf of Russia. Trump responded by attacking the Times, claiming that he’s been tougher on Russia than any present in recent history. A few days later, the Times reported that Trump “repeatedly” discussed pulling the United States out of NATO, an unconscionable move that would have defied advisers and delighted Putin, who has sought nothing more than to break up the alliance of Western nations.
In between the two stories came another revelation, this one from the Washington Post, which reported that Trump went out of his way to hide the details of his meetings with Putin. After convening with the Russian leader for the first time at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in 2017, Trump even took his interpreter’s notes and instructed her not to discuss the meeting with any administration officials.
On Monday, Andrew S. Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment connected the dots between the Post‘s story and what has already been revealed about Trump’s efforts to conceal the nature of this relationship with Russia.
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