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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:30 PM Feb 2017

Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty - sources

Source: Reuters

In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.

When Putin raised the possibility of extending the 2010 treaty, known as New START, Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was, these sources said.

Trump then told Putin the treaty was one of several bad deals negotiated by the Obama administration, saying that New START favored Russia. Trump also talked about his own popularity, the sources said.

The White House declined to comment. It referred Reuters to the official White House account issued after the Jan. 28 call, which did not mention the discussion about New START.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-putin-idUSKBN15O2A5?il=0&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

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Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty - sources (Original Post) Miles Archer Feb 2017 OP
So comforting to have the fate of the world in such capable hands. FailureToCommunicate Feb 2017 #1
Likely weren't many in the room during the call, so whoever leaked this is risking the wrath of T. JudyM Feb 2017 #2
"I may have tiny hands, but America's nuclear WARDICKS are bigger than yours. Nah nah, nah nah." #45 Achilleaze Feb 2017 #3
Not true! OKIsItJustMe Feb 2017 #10
Duh, stupid lying greedy orange assface has $ in the nuclear game. lark Feb 2017 #4
Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was More_Cowbell Feb 2017 #5
"Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was" Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2017 #6
When he found that Obama was associated with this BumRushDaShow Feb 2017 #7
Make it stop Hekate Feb 2017 #8
Fucking amateur hour jpak Feb 2017 #9

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
3. "I may have tiny hands, but America's nuclear WARDICKS are bigger than yours. Nah nah, nah nah." #45
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:41 PM
Feb 2017

The Republican draft-dodger-in-chief luvs to talk tuff with other people's lives.


lark

(23,105 posts)
4. Duh, stupid lying greedy orange assface has $ in the nuclear game.
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:41 PM
Feb 2017

He wants the company he's part owner in to build more nuclear plants because he personally benefits from this. That's why he's pushing so hard to increase our nukes and for Russia to also increase theirs. He's so fucking stupid he can't get nuclear annihilation and what that will mean. He can't see beyond the dancing $ signs as profit and hate are all he truly cares about. We are so fucked!

More_Cowbell

(2,191 posts)
5. Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:46 PM
Feb 2017

Good grief. And he probably was advised by President Bannon that the deal was bad for the US. If Trump didn't know what the treaty was, then he obviously didn't know if it was good or bad. The same person who told him what it was, told him that.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,005 posts)
6. "Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was"
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:46 PM
Feb 2017

Then he thought he knew enough to denounce it.

Flynn was surely in the room. He probably said the treaty was garbage and tRump repeated it to Putin.

Remember, recording devices were turned off for that call.

BumRushDaShow

(129,087 posts)
7. When he found that Obama was associated with this
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 02:03 PM
Feb 2017

he knee-jerked the typical GOP response - automatically reject and do the opposite.

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