Trump White House efforts to deny the WashPo story were immediately sabotaged by Trump himself, who confirmed the story on Twitter early on the morning of May 16, 2017 3/n https://t.co/rN2s1J7Exy— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 10, 2019
Later that same day, May 16, then Press Secretary Sean Spicer blasted the media ... for reporting on Trump's blabbing. Spicer denounced the reporting on Trump's blurt as "frankly dangerous" and "extremely troubling" 5/n https://t.co/V6RjddiZPG pic.twitter.com/Qhd0PneVMJ— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 10, 2019
The CIA was alarmed not only by Trump's Oval Office blurts on May 15, 2017, but also- and maybe even more - by his no-witnesses meeting with Vladimir Putin in Hamburg in July 2017. That's the meeting where Trump afterward seized and destroyed the translator's notes 7/n pic.twitter.com/As10yXeMzo— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 10, 2019
How much of Trump's animus vs Ukraine can be traced to the July 2017 secret talk with Putin? Trump's own staff don't know. To this day, Trump's financial ties to Russia remain undisclosed. It does not seem that Mueller investigated them either. 9/n— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 10, 2019
The FISA story now being woof-woofed by Trump and the pro-Trump media is only the latest attempt to lead Americans off the trail into the thickets. Lavrov's return to the Oval Office today amid the Ukraine impeachment IS the trail - and that's what should be pursued. 10/10— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 10, 2019
