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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 2

      The Evasion in Trump's Response on the June 9 Meeting Statement: Did Putin Dictate the Statement? https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/06/02/the-non-denial-denial-in-trumps-response-on-the-june-9-meeting-statement-did-putin-dictate-the-statement/ …

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    2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 2

      When I said that BOTH Trump and Jr may be lying about who wrote the June 9 statement, I mean that Putin may have dictated it.

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    3. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jun 2
      Replying to @emptywheel

      Concerning the Putin-Trump June 8, 2017 dinner chats in Hamburg (I believe there were two, one w/ Melania nearby and another 1:1), I was curious abt Putin's command of English. http://www.newsweek.com/does-putin-speak-english-kremlin-634048 …pic.twitter.com/gRb6YqdXia

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    4. Harry Godwyn‏ @harrygod Jun 2
      Replying to @RickPetree @emptywheel

      I'm sure his English is better than Trump's. In some biography I read recently he is said to have started seriously studying English soon after taking power. There is an anecdote about his saying he practices by reading aloud to his dog but I can't find it now. Anyone?

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    5. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jun 2
      Replying to @harrygod @emptywheel

      And, of course, his German is fluent.

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 2
      Replying to @RickPetree @harrygod

      Yeah, just reviewing Melania's languages and her German prolly isn't that good and oddly, she doesn't speak Russian. So Putin's superior English it would be.

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        2. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jun 2
          Replying to @emptywheel @harrygod

          Few Slovenes speak Russian. It's not offered in schools, where German and Spanish are popular. There are minority Croatian and Hungarian populations, so those languages are in the mix. Quite a few can speak Romanian or Bulgarian. But Russian is mostly absent.

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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 2
          Replying to @RickPetree @harrygod

          Even at Melania's age? now, I get that.

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        4. Troll McTrollski‏ @TrollMcTrollski Jun 2
          Replying to @emptywheel @RickPetree @harrygod

          Yugoslavia was not a Soviet block country really. Unlike, say, Bulgaria - where everyone her age would indeed speak at least some Russian, and many folks were genuinely bilingual. There were some natural Russophiles among educated Serbs. But few if any Slovenians.

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        5. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jun 2
          Replying to @TrollMcTrollski @emptywheel @harrygod

          Right.

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        1. Harry Godwyn‏ @harrygod Jun 2
          Replying to @emptywheel @RickPetree

          Imagine she'd have been most motivated for French and Italian, and of course English.

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