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| Trump concealed interactions with Putin. |
The New York Times and Washington Post released back to back bombshells.
The Times reported that the FBI opened an inquiry into whether Trump was secretly working on behalf of Russia. After he fired FBI director James Comey out the cannon, the feds were concerned that Trump was acting in the interest of the Russian Federation.
Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the imbecile's own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow's influence.
The FBI is determining whether the cannon firing of Comey constituted to obstruction of justice.
Trump continues to deny his 2016 campaign had ties to Russia.
His infamous remarks about asking Russia to hack into the emails of his former opponent Hillary Clinton raised red flags.
Trump refused to criticized Russia on the campaign trail. He praised the Russian Federation leader on numerous occasions.
Also he has also scrubbed private encounters with Putin.
The Washington Post made the bombshell report that Trump concealed details from senior staffers.
Trump went to "extraordinary lengths" to keep details from his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin secret – even from officials within his own administration, The Washington Post reported this weekend, citing unnamed sources.
After meeting with Putin at the 2017 Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, Trump took his interpreter's notes and told him not to discuss the meeting with anyone, including other U.S. officials, the Post reported.
The paper said Trump's handling of the Hamburg meeting was "part of a broader pattern by the president of shielding his communications with Putin from public scrutiny and preventing even high-ranking officials in his own administration from fully knowing what he has told one of the United States’ main adversaries."
No detailed record exists from five of Trump's interactions with the Russian leader since taking office, the Post reported. It was unclear if that was the only time Trump took his interpreters' notes, but the paper said several administration officials have been unable to obtain a readout from his meeting last year with Putin in Helsinki.
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was present at the meeting in Hamburg. The Post said Tillerson did not answer questions about Trump asking the interpreter to keep details of the meeting quiet, or if Trump took the interpreter's notes.
Fiona Hill, a senior Russia adviser on the National Security Council, and former State Department official John Heffern asked Trump's interpreter for more information about the Hamburg meeting, which is how they learned of the president's request to keep the details under wraps, the Post reported.
In a news conference after the meeting, Tillerson said Putin denied interfering in the 2016 election, but refused to say how Trump responded to the denial, per the Post. Officials told the Post that the only detail from the meeting that the interpreter did share was that Trump told Putin, "I believe you."
Trump denied the report during an interview with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro Saturday. He called the Post "basically the lobbyist for Amazon," because it is owned by the tech giant's CEO Jeff Bezos, a Trump critic.
"I’m not keeping anything under wraps," Trump said. "I couldn't care less."
"I have a one-on-one meeting with Putin like I do with every other leader. I have many one-on-one, nobody ever says anything about it," Trump told Pirro. "But with Putin, they say, 'Oh, what did they talk about?'"
"I meet with Putin, and they make a big deal. Anybody could have listened to that meeting. that meeting is up for grabs," Trump said, adding that he and Putin spoke about Israel and "lots of other things."
Trump dismissed the "whole Russia thing" as a "terrible hoax" and said he won in 2016 because he "was a better candidate than Hillary Clinton," not because of collusion with Russian efforts to undermine her campaign.
"The fact is, I was obviously a good candidate. I won every debate. I won everything I did, and I won, and I won easily – 306-223, I believe," Trump said, referring to his performance in the Electoral College.
Democrats were alarmed by The Washington Post report.
Many Democratic lawmakers are pressuring for an investigation into this matter.
Trump also shocked the world when he phoned in an interview on Fox News. He talked to that shrew Jeanine Pirro.
She clearly asked him if he worked for Russia.
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