White House further limits officials on Trump's foreign leader calls in wake of Ukraine scandal
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's senior aides have further restricted the number of administration officials allowed to listen to the President's phone calls with foreign leaders since his July 25 call with Ukraine's President was revealed and became the centerpiece of the impeachment inquiry, according to multiple White House sources.
Transcripts of Trump's calls with world leaders are also disseminated to a far smaller group of people inside the White House, those administration sources say, continuing an effort to limit the number of people with insight and information about the conversations.
It amounts to a concerted effort to prevent Trump's conversations -- which officials have said sometimes veer off into unguarded or undiplomatic territory -- from becoming known to even those inside the administration.
"Nobody is allowed on the calls," a White House official said, describing the new effort to limit those with access to the calls to only the President's senior-most aides, barring some senior and mid-level career staff from listening in. "The barn door officially closed after the horse escaped."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/politics/white-house-foreign-calls-crackdown-ukraine/index.html
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underpants
(182,883 posts)Whats that? Bomb Yankee stadium (Putin said Yemen) Yes sir.
Huh? Yes sir.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)They even hate him at the WH.
ancianita
(36,137 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,212 posts)You could behave yourself and quit trying to sell our country out.
FormerOstrich
(2,703 posts)nothing wrong, policy differences, deep state, yammer loud, coup the rubber meets the road.
They will freeze out everyone that is not a sworn Trump devotee. See...no more problems. No more whistleblowers. No one will dare to speak up. We the people can just sit down and STFU...they'll tell us.
I have so much respect for Vindman and the others that testified. This is not how it should be for you. I am so sorry this has happened to those that deserve so much better.