[Update-1] As I’ve stated before as my opinion, when anyone from the Trump campaign talks “adoption” it’s a code word for talking “sanctions”. When leaders of two most powerful nations engage to improve their personal relationship and offer diplomacy a chance for a more peaceful world, I will applaud both of them. The setting of the spouses dinner at the G20 in Hamburg was a sparse moment and president Trump took the initiative. For so many pundits seeing a conspiracy or part of a plot to undermine the Republican slogan of “America First” is just sad. Nothing nefarious for two leaders to have a private chat where the NSA can’t eavesdrop and leak a transcript. Great show!
See my new diary on the preposturous actions from U.S. Congress to monopolize the energy market as the empires have done for over a hundred years leading to global wars and millions of deaths.
Martin Longman @BooMan used to be on the same page as Ian Bremmer of the EurAsia Group … not anymore!
Just three links @BooMan referring to Ian Bremmer:
○ Bush’s Declining Political Capital by BooMan on July 24, 2005
“Ian Bremmer hits the nail on the head in his piece in The Australian.”
○ Eurasia Group is involved in the Iraq oil Production Sharing Agreements by AliceDem on June 6, 2007
And my recent diary …
○ During Yeltsin Era, UK and US Stripped Assets Off Russia
Yesterday Martin Longman wrote a front page story …
○ Looks Like Trump and Putin Colluded on Adoption Story
The original version of this event was a statement from Ian Bremmer in his newsletter on Monday July 17, 2017 …
Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer in his newsletter [Monday July 17]
Continued below the fold …
Ian Bremmer discussed it with Charlie Rose …
Monday 07/17/2017
Ian Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group, discusses President Trump’s second meeting with President Putin during the G20 summit.Trump-Putin had a 2nd private discussion at the G20…for an hour. Really? Really. I discuss with @CharlieRose. https://t.co/nBiBqPUSXK
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) July 18, 2017
Charlie Rose >>> see Bloomberg article
Ian Bremmer >>> see CNBC interview and article
Trump tweet: Even a G20 meeting at a dinner is made to look sinister.
Ian Bremmer: Yeah, I, I … I’m sorry there are people that make it look sinister. I don’t think it’s sinister. I think it’s a lack of experience. indifference to taking advice from the smart people he has around him. Those that are telling him not to say things on twitter. Not to handle, not to make comment that he does. Also not to take a meeting for an hour with Putin on the sidelines without a translator that can take notes. He doesn’t listen. I don’t think that is sinister at all. But he also said it was fake news …
Trump Had Second Conversation With Putin While at Summit
By Jennifer Epstein | 19 juli 2017 00:50 CEST | 19 juli 2017 03:29 CEST |
- White House confirms previously undisclosed encounter
- Formal meeting between two presidents earlier lasted 2 hours
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The U.S. and Russian presidents had a conversation during a dinner July 7 at the summit in Hamburg after spending more than two hours in a formal bilateral meeting earlier in the day, Michael Anton, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said.“There was a couples-only social dinner at the G-20,” Anton said in response to questions. “Toward the end, the president spoke to Putin at the dinner.” Such informal side encounters between leaders are common at summits, but the White House didn’t reveal the Trump-Putin conversation at the time.
A separate statement distributed by the White House press office said the conversation between Trump and Putin was brief, came toward the end of the dinner and was among many that the U.S. president had with other leaders at the event. First lady Melania Trump was seated next to Putin and the conversation came about when Trump went over to his wife.
Such informal encounters are common at international summits and leaders occasionally use the social events to emphasize or expand on points made in formal settings. Former President Barack Obama had a similar session with Putin at the 2013 G-20 meeting in which small talk between the two leaders led to them pulling up chairs in the corner of the room for a 20-minute discussion about Syria. That conversation was disclosed at the time.
The encounter between Trump and Putin was first reported by the Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer in his newsletter on Monday [July 17]. Bremmer, citing unidentified sources, wrote that Trump got up from his seat at the dinner and sat down next to Putin and the two spoke “animatedly” for about an hour. Bremmer said his sources told him only Putin’s translator was present for the conversation.
The White House statement said that each couple attending the dinner was only allowed one translator and that the Trumps brought with them a Japanese translator because the president was seated next to the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan.
During their formal meeting, Trump said he confronted Putin about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election but, by his own admission, only pressed the issue twice before moving onto other subjects. Trump later told reporters that he’d like to invite Putin to the White House when the timing is right.
Matthew J. Belvedere | Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | Wednesday, 19 Jul 2017 | 2:29 PM ET
Ian Bremmer, president of the political risk consultancy Eurasia Group, told CNBC he reported on a second, undisclosed G-20 meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin because “nobody else was going to break it.”
Saying he’s not in the business of breaking news, Bremmer told “Squawk on the Street” he decided to talk about it Monday evening with Bloomberg’s Charlie Rose to have a longer conversation as opposed to just making headlines. After that, the story went national.
In a note to Eurasia clients Monday morning, Bremmer first disclosed the G-20 dinner meeting between Trump and Putin, which took place on July 7, just hours after the two leaders held their formal, two-hour bilateral meeting at the summit in Germany.
The White House on Tuesday confirmed the second meeting, describing the encounter as “a brief conversation at the end of a dinner.”
Bremmer took issue with that characterization, and indicated others knew about the meeting.
The dinner meeting “might have been 55 minutes,” he told CNBC. “The people I talked to weren’t timing. It wasn’t five minutes. Brief implies it’s five minutes or 10 minutes.”
In details from the Eurasia note, Bremmer wrote about the sequence of events, according to his sources.
All the rest is playing people’s fear and fantasy. What a dangerous and crazy world we live in. Indoctrination … heading for a military confrontation between nuclear powers dividing East and West based on lies, fake news and pure propaganda. Repeating lies often enough for it to become a fact in people’s daily lives. Insanity! Apparently the PES of HRC has managed to penetrate the minds of most Democrats …
Hillary Clinton says the Russians had to be guided by Americans | Recode’s Code Conference |
Hillary Clinton charged that misinformation and “fake news” spread over the course of the 2016 presidential campaign had to have been “guided” — potentially by the campaign of President Donald Trump.
Appearing onstage at the Code Conference, Clinton pointed to a report by the government’s top intelligence agencies, released in January, which found Russia sought to “influence” and “undermine” the election. The FBI is still investigating ties between agents of Moscow and the Trump administration, but Clinton said Tuesday she is “leaning” in a direction that suggests the two coordinated.
“The Russians, in my opinion … could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they have been guided … by Americans,” Clinton charged.
Clinton specifically pointed to the release of John Podesta’s hacked emails, which had been published online by WikiLeaks. She said the document dump only came an hour after a story in the Washington Post unearthed a 2005 tape of Trump making a controversial comment about women on the set of Access Hollywood.
Going forward, Clinton said, “I think it’s fair to ask, how did that actually influence the campaign, and how did they know what messages to deliver? Who told them? Who were they coordinating with, and colluding with?”
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Clinton’s latest comments continue a postelection emergence in which the former Democratic nominee continues to point fingers for her loss, though other accounts of the Clinton campaign have put more fault in her corner.
Hillary Clinton’s new book, ‘What Happened,’ will address the 2016 election | LA Times |
Hillary Clinton’s next book, titled “What Happened,” will focus on the former secretary of State’s loss to Donald Trump in November, and will be a “cautionary tale” about Russia’s alleged role in interfering in the election, the Associated Press reports.
Clinton’s publisher, Simon & Schuster now has a Web page for the memoir, which will be published Sept. 12.
“For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history,” Simon & Schuster writes. “Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules.”
I was surprised in reading more from Ian Bremmer from the Eurasia group writing about fossil fuel and the Caspian Sea basin, oil & gas pipelines, the Iraq oil Production Sharing Agreement, Libya, Syria, Kurdistan and Russia preserving its fossil fuel wealth under Putin. Resource nationalism and sustainable development: a primer and key issues. Fascinating reading from a person well versed in International politics and high places. How the media mutilated his news about the Trump – Putin chat at the G20 spouses dinner.
○ RussiaGate: 8th Person at Meeting Identified
○ Is RussiaGate Really IC-Gate – Forbes
