I'm watching the Trump-Putin press conference from the beginning. Putin begins with a speech expressing hope for cooperation on mutual interests. Ordinary, sensible stuff. Putin says that working together on Syria could be a good example of cooperation.
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Trump says he beat Hillary with zero collusion. Says that these allegations are having a negative effect on relations between largest nuclear powers. Journalist asks why we should believe Russia given US intelligence info and whether the accused will be extradited.
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Trump says he ran a brilliant campaign. Putin says they each defend their own interests. Says the collusion idea is nonsense. Putin says he will look into the 12 intelligence officers. Putin refers to criminal treaty. Says Mueller can send a request under treaty.
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Putin says he would permit Mueller to go to Russia to question the accused if the Americans would allow questioning of people they believe have done illegal actions to Russia. Something about Mr. Browder evading taxes and sending $400M to Hillary.
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(Brilliant move by Putin regarding this trade by the way. Send Mueller over to talk to Russians, and send Russians over to talk about illegally helping Hillary. A win-win.)
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Journalist asks if Putin wanted Trump to win. Yes because he talked about normalizing relations.
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Russian journalist asks for specifics about working together in Syria. Trump says they can work together to protect Israel, create safety for Israel. Talks about eradication of ISIS. Trump says he wants to help the people of Syria on a humanitarian basis.
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Putin agrees re humanitarian aid to reduce migration pressure on Europe. Both say their militaries work together. Putin gives Trump a soccer ball, says the ball is in his court. Trump tosses it to Melania, says it's going to Barron.
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US journalist asks Trump to denounce Putin and whether he believes US intelligence. Trump asks where the DNC server is. Trump says Putin says it's not Russia. Trump wants to know what happened to the Pakistani DNC employee's servers. Trump refers to 33k Hillary emails.
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Trump refers positively to Putin's offer to work together re 12 accused people. Putin refers to Soros. Putin refers to using the criminal treaty.
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Journalist asks about Crimea & compromising material on Trump. (US journalists are unhinged) Putin says Trump firmly stands by his position that Crimean annex is illegal. They disagree.
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Putin says he didn't know Trump was in Moscow as a private individual, asks why they would try to get material on 500 US businessmen. Trump says the FBI guy was a disgrace.
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Journalists apoplectic in the aftermath that Trump didn't denounce Putin to his face.
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If Putin didn't understand the problem before, he gets it now. The US media is the enemy.
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