Excellent trolling by G7

As McMaster & Cohn take the stage at G7 for news conference,
TV screen over shoulders is playing CNN segment on WaPo’s Kushner/Russia scoop.



https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/868453278060879872

Even the Russian ambassador was alarmed by Kushner's proposal for a secret comms pipeline...

G7 summit: look who has chosen not to hear a translation of his Italian host's speech

"Why aren't Germans patriotic?" (Great answer)

Charles P Pierce: As long as we're talking pre-inaugural "back channels".....

As long as we're talking pre-inaugural "back channels,"
what say we talk Nixon and the Paris talks and Reagan + the hostages in Iran?


https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/868410709788561408


Nixon 👉 Vietnam
Reagan 👉 Iran
Trump 👉 Russia
Nixon was the cancer, and Ford let that cancer metastasize.

https://twitter.com/lghcox/status/868092635373871104

Russians implied a deal: drop sanctions & Russian banks can lend to people with Trump ties

Including BEFORE Election Day when Russia was attacking 2016 campaign.

Exclusive: Trump son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with Russian envoy - sources

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Separately, there were at least 18 undisclosed calls and emails between Trump associates and Kremlin-linked people in the seven months before the Nov. 8 presidential election, including six calls with Kislyak, sources told Reuters earlier this month. . Two people familiar with those 18 contacts said Flynn and Kushner were among the Trump associates who spoke to the ambassador by telephone. Reuters previously reported only Flynn’s involvement in those discussions.

Six of the sources said there were multiple contacts between Kushner and Kislyak but declined to give details beyond the two phone calls between April and November and the post-election conversation about setting up a back channel. It is also not clear whether Kushner engaged with Kislyak on his own or with other Trump aides.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fbi-kushner-exclusive-idUSKBN18N018

https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/868272373937709057

The Simpsons takes on Trump-Comey (complete with Nixon cameo)

Trump consumed by Russia probe-was "100% focused" on it during foreign trip; barely practiced

Trump has been consumed by Russia probe—was "100% focused" on it during foreign trip; barely practiced Muslim speech

https://twitter.com/MichaelCBender/status/868209353135992834



Mr. Trump has previously queried advisers about major changes, only to stick by his current staff and leave in place internal processes. But as he prepares to return from the nine-day foreign trip on Sunday, the situation back home is threatening to consume his administration, his allies said. Before he left, the Justice Department appointed former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee the probe, which is focused on any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the election and may also include looking into the firing of Mr. Comey earlier this month.

“He’s 100% focused on this,” said a White House official, noting that the president slept only two hours in Saudi Arabia the night before his widely-anticipated speech on Islam that he spent little time rehearsing.

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One major change under consideration would vet the president’s social media posts through a team of lawyers, who would decide if any needed to be adjusted or curtailed. The idea, said one of Mr. Trump’s advisers, is to create a system so that tweets “don’t go from the president’s mind out to the universe.”


https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyeing-white-house-shakeup-1495831679

WSJ: Trump's Tweets to be vetted by a team of lawyers..."

WSJ: "One major change under consideration would vet the president’s social media posts through a team of lawyers..."



https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/868209575199207424

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyeing-white-house-shakeup-1495831679