Stumbling Bolton Cites Putin's Version Of Helsinki Summit Talk

Tommy Christopher

August 3, 2018 4:00 am

Putin’s serial humiliation of Trump reared its ugly head again Thursday when a pair of top national security officials demonstrated their lack of knowledge about what occurred the summit between the two leaders last month.

The White House held a press briefing on 2018 election security that was conducted by Sarah Huckabee Sanders and five high-ranking officials, including Trump national security adviser John Bolton and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.

Reuters correspondent Jeff Mason asked both Coats and Bolton to explain why Trump did not discuss Russian “malign activity” at the Helsinki summit.

Director Coats, who is in charge of the United States’ entire intelligence community, replied that “I’m not in a position to either understand fully, or talk about, what happened in Helsinki.”

Coats referred the question to Bolton, who told reporters that “President Putin said, I thought at the press conference, but certainly in the expanded bilateral meeting when the two leaders got together with their senior advisers, President Putin said the first issue that president Trump raised was election meddling.”

more
http://www.nationalmemo.com/stumbling-bolton-cites-putins-version-of-helsinki-summit-talk/