The country will never truly know what U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed during a private meeting with only translators present in Helsinki, Finland. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insists that he knows what they discussed because he was briefed afterward by Trump, but since the president rarely tells the truth about anything, Pompeo will never know for sure, either.
Putin gave Trump a soccer ball during a news conference last week in Helsinki, Finland — and the ball may have contained a transmitter chip.
Images of the ball appear to show a logo indicating it has a chip included as part of a standard feature. https://t.co/CE2WXV2A8S pic.twitter.com/WcXjIJqnMq
— CNN (@CNN) July 26, 2018
What is known is that Trump committed traitorous acts while standing next to Putin for a press conference in Finland. Although Trump tried to walk his statements back with a ridiculous excuse a full 24 hours later, he told the press at the time that he believed Putin’s claims of innocence in Russian election meddling and Putin said that he not only wanted Trump to win in 2016, but that he had directed Kremlin officials to help him do so.
Trump needs to be locked up today " the only Collusion with Russia was with the Democrats"
“President Putin, did you want Trump to win the election?
And
DID YOU DIRECT ANY OF YOUR OFFICIALS TO HELP HIM DO THAT?"
Putin: “Yes, I did.
YES, I DID.”pic.twitter.com/Qflb5rs2FS
— ☇RiotWomenn☇ (@riotwomennn) July 27, 2018
As a result of that press conference as well as new information that shows the Russia has successfully hacked into U.S. electric grids and has illegally hacked and targeted Democratic congresswoman Claire McCaskill in further efforts to influence the 2018 midterm elections, Putin refused an invite to the White House and Trump said that meeting wouldn’t be able to take place until early next year (conveniently, after the midterms have concluded), and now Putin has asked Trump to instead come to Moscow for that meeting.
JUST IN: 2 days after US pushes date for a second Trump-Putin summit, President Putin says he is ready for another meeting with President Trump, as phone conversations are not sufficient, and has extended an invite for President Trump to visit Moscow.
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) July 27, 2018
According to CNBC News, Putin has gave the following statement at a press conference :
‘Regarding our meetings, I understand very well what President Trump said. He has a desire to have further meetings, to hold further meetings. I am ready for that. We need for the appropriate conditions to exist, to be created, including in our countries.
‘We are ready for such meetings. We are ready to invite President Trump to Moscow. By all means. By the way, he has such an invitation, I told him about that.’
Trump + Russia this week:
"Don't see any reason why it would be" Russia meddling, WH: He meant "wouldn't"
Accepts intel, but "could be other people"
"No" Russia not still hacking, WH: Meant "no" more questions
"Incredible" to let Russia question Americans, WH: Not Incredible
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 23, 2018
Putin further stated that only meetings in person, presumably once again including private meetings where American press and government officials are kept in the dark, and not telephone conversations are sufficient to achieve their goals. That makes sense considering that phone calls can be monitored and hacked into for information.
Yesterday, WSJ reported Russian attacks on US electric utilities first surfaced in the "spring of 2016."
What else was happening then?
Take a look at the #TrumpRussia Timeline @InvestigateRU.
Probably just another in endless series of Trump coincidences: https://t.co/qERO11GRMT— Steven J. Harper (@StevenJHarper1) July 24, 2018
This comes on the same week that the U.S. discovered that Putin gave Trump a bugged soccer ball as a gift in Finland and that Russian hackers successfully hacked into U.S. electric grids. With that kind of power, Russia could conceivably attack our country in an all-new way and kill thousands, possibly even hundreds of thousands, of American citizens. Used in the right way, it could make 9/11 look like terrorist child’s play.
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