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Crutchez_CuiBono

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3. putin knows English very well.

Reply to mr_lebowski (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 21, 2018, 11:14 AM

Jul 2018

The translators have been interviewed or are already security assets to begin with. The security services of the country have been at this for 75 years. Unlike the average American...thinking ahead proactively...is very much part of their SOP.

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We must get the notes of the Helsinki Translator [View all] tomhagen Jul 2018 OP

If putin was able to record it... Crutchez_CuiBono Jul 2018 #1

Skeptical there even really were any, think it's a front to make it seem like meeting couldn't have mr_lebowski Jul 2018 #2

putin knows English very well. Crutchez_CuiBono Jul 2018 #3

So why, if he does, did they need translators? At most I think they could've got away with having mr_lebowski Jul 2018 #4

Maybe its bc Crutchez_CuiBono Jul 2018 #6

And why in the world would we trust a Trump-picked translator to be truthful about it. enough Jul 2018 #5

Gov translators come from a pool generally. Crutchez_CuiBono Jul 2018 #7

I dunno PoorMonger Jul 2018 #8

Why was this "private" meeting ever allowed at all? smirkymonkey Jul 2018 #9