President Donald Trump speaks at the Hispanic Heritage Month Reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019.
The clampdown was not an attempt to conceal improper discussions but rather keep distribution about the substance of the calls to a minimum in light of the leaked transcripts from the summer of 2017, according to the official, who was not authorized to publicly talk about the process and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The former White House official confirmed there was an effort to limit access to Trump’s calls, but offered an alternative explanation: The White House was trying to limit leaks of private conversations. CNN first reported on the White House effort. The call came days after Trump ordered a freeze to some military assistance for Ukraine, Trump prodded Zelenskiy to dig for potentially damaging material on Biden, the former vice president who is a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, and volunteered the assistance of both his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and his attorney general, William Barr.
JonLemire With all of that it was still necessary to misuse and violate security procedures by attempting to hide his crimes in a manner where hopefully they would never see the light of day. Ivanka used a personal email account to send 100s of emails about government business.Lock who up?
Wouldn’t you if your discussions were consistently being leaked? Recall the mockery made of some early calls?
Gee, I wonder why? A media propaganda operation and leakers imbedded in the White House to disparage POTUS any way they can! So difficult to imagine why!🙄
Since when does the president have reveal everything said in private conversations
Yea, proof, until then fake news.
By severely restricting, does this former WH official mean those documents are for general public circulation?
So... Like, they did what they have been doing for decades with calls between world leaders? Whoa... How could they? The blatant shadiness of them to follow standard procedure...
The calls a president makes should be limited.
Good
Good, too many demo spies in WH
any why - Leakers of Classified Information !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
is just another prostitute for the DeepState
_Politics
Wouldn’t you, with all spying for Democrats to launch attacks. I figured the President was paranoid but now I know his security is out to get him.
It called learning from your mistakes. That place is obviously filled with backstabbing snakes
because they were tired of all the leaks of his phone calls to the news media
We must 'Empty the Swamp' as Trump likes to say. When we do this, we now must include Russia, Saudi Arabia, & any other country who aligned with Trump. We need to show the entire World that we still are, and have always been, the greatest country in the World. USA 🇺🇸
Blah blah fake news bullshit
Da...leakers. traitors
this had got to ne the leakiest Whit House in history...the people inside keep trying to warn us when will we listen and do something about it TrumpCrimeFamilyMustGo
translation. They are classified and the media is having a meltdown because they dont have the security clearance to view them. Waaaaa babies!!!!!
Name the official, have them testify under oath.
If these currently restricted transcripts document convos with Putin and MBS, indicating that he sold out the US for his own gain, Republicans are out. Lawyers, analysts, aides from Nat Sec, State & the WH & others who heard the abuse should be doing the right thing, right now.
Yep so intel agencies changed rules so leakers could leak info. disbandintel!
More importantly what’s up with the pedophile ring? Asking for a friend.
With rampant leaks of everything this surprises you. FAKE NEWS is something.
Those are the calls we really need to know about too. President Trump and President Putin of Russia. And President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia.
Davidlaz We're living in an authoritarian nightmare.
😂😂😂😂😂
Trump has made us apart of a new axis of evil...
With all the leaking in the WH i can't blame the WH. Democrats are endangering other countries with the hate for this President
Aren’t there conversations with leaders that every president has kept secret. Ask obama.
They have to with all the leaks from Dems
We may have stumbled on a honey pot of information in this code word level server. All the Łitsooí Łééchąą'í ‘s transcripts Navajo Code Talkers may yet have the last laugh, when we hear what’s been encrypted.
Can you link me to the article where Obama’s private conversations with Russia after his ‘more flexibly’ comment to Medvedev were released? Thanks
.....”especially if we deleted the bad ones!”
What’s worse is all the comments on this making excuses for doing so. Sad people indeed.
🔥👹🔥
This is so stupid. Clearly the call was not under a secret server no one can get to. Just because it’s moved to a place where joe whistler blower can’t get to it doesn’t make it a cover up. If I was the leader of another country I wouldn’t do business with America.
It appears trump has much to hide. An honest person does not act in this manner. All that he has hidden needs to be produced. Trump has been compromised.
_Politics Tell this anonymous WH official to zip it. Tired of bull.
Good thing. Or deep state spys would leak sensitive information. Where were they when Obama was arranging money to Iran, Benghazi or arranging with Comey to spy on Trump?
Anything on Obama’s phone calls and transcripts with foreign leaders ....
Sounds under the table or side deals on the agenda and not foreign policies we're talked about if got to go great links to hide those conversation.
Do ya blame them?! Bunch of back stabbing opportunists......thanks for screwing up transparency...smdh
Sooo this official is actually a spy or a leaker?
Nixon's ANONYMOUS whistle blower, Deep Throat. Even in DC some decent people still have a conscience.
Sure hope they did. We can't have leakers exposing information to destroy our country. So sick of these idiot leakers and Trump haters.
A Special Counsel should be appointed in order to investigate the Joe & Hunter Biden dealings in Ukraine while Joe Biden was VP ! Bidengate !
but my emails
Were Obama’s calls with Iran about giving them CASH and ignoring Congress held somewhere secret? Why? Let’s see them.
Meanwhile...where are OBAMA’s school records? We they also held in a top secret location?
Because of leaks...DUH
No one cares about his call. Zzzz
Nothing new, they started doing that 2 years ago because all of the obama holdovers were leaking everything to the media
_Politics Yes. This is standard procedure.
“Including”...😂😂😂. You mean all foreign leaders?!?
If the transcripts of those calls made public there could be more reasons for impeaching Trump. Also possible he committed high crimes not just impeachable misdeeds. If Trump a GS-12 civil servant he would be already serving 10 year sentence in Federal jail.
JonLemire Releasing the transcripts *will* have an effect on foreign leaders who have calls with future presidents. And that's good! Let them all know that any illegal dealings will see the light of day. That includes MBS's call about murdering and dismembering Jamal Khashoggi.
This President has by far been more transparent than the Obama administration. We are still waiting on Hillary’s emails that were lost. Is that transparency? That’s criminal.
Of course he did. He is using the office for personal gain. He doesn't give a rat's ass about the people...never has
Trump is a bad man but let’s talk about his enablers... without them this would have been nipped in the bud a long time ago
How many other President's have had these calls? Give me a break.
Hey marcorubio this is perfectly fine, right?
STOP WITH THE NO SOURCE BULLSHIT
_Politics Every conversation the POTUS (all of them, not just Trump) has with foreign leaders is considered Confidential until it is deemed not Confidential. This is nothing new. Standard operating procedure.
Yeah. No shit. Need to be able to have private conversations. Not rocket science here people. Leaks early on led to a needed change. How is this bad? And how many private conversations of former presidents do we have knowledge of? This is so stupid.
Considering the number of leaks ...I’m surprised he routed them to anyone...
_Politics Please tell me how many phone conversations of past Presidents have been made public and scrutinized by the liberal media?
The media would leak secret talks and derail everything if they could. No wonder people don’t trust the media to have the best interests of the country at heart.
When you have many Democrats working against the success of our country you shouldn’t share it with them
The crack of doom is coming soon
Ref. AP's opinion: Was he a DISGRUNTLED ex White House employee ? Therefore trying to taint the President ?
Man, should have circulated that shit everywhere! Such fascists /s 👌🏻ImpeachDonaldTrumpNOW ClimateStrike HowDareThey
In other criminal news ......
It’s a real shock for you to see someone actually take security seriously isn’t it?
And? There's so many leakers making up false stories and accusations. Trump is right!
Which law did this break Oh none, ok got it. Move along
Is this illegal? Nope
Because the white house leaks
Yeah because everyone is leaking them!!!
Good. It's none of your business.
Stop. You POS lost. Get over it. What happens when everyone get a trophy. That’s what happen in an election. Someone wins and Someone loses. Three years of crying. The money wasted could have feed the 16 million kid starving in the US.
'The clampdown was not an attempt to conceal improper discussions but rather keep distribution about the substance of the calls to a minimum...'. I guess there's a difference, but it seems mighty small.
If I was realDonaldTrump I’d take a flamethrower to the West Wing...witch-hunt since day 1 in office
Yeah. Those need to be released.
Grifter in Chief. Liar in chief
The people reacting to this as if this is a new thing that only Trump has done as President. Sorry folks, been going on for years and years. This is nothing new, to act like it is a This is nothing new, to act like it is a is extremely disingenuous...
Smart move. Leakers and liars.Haters and deep state can’t keep from putting their own spin on the convos, ya know, like RepAdamSchiff did. They’re breaking their security clearance at minimum.
It’s almost as if people are intent on undermining an elected potus by leaking information they might react by being overly cautious.
So is this a story because your sources of leaks was stopped? Or are there legal issues? Since the President (D or R) is the lead on foreign discussions, locking down those communications seems appropriate to prevent unelected reporters from trying to decide foreign policy
Leave Trump ALONE!!!
To protect from leaking since Trump Derangement Syndrome is REAL
If MAGA didn’t have so much hate in their veins they may have been able to acknowledge their ignorance and see this crime family for what they are. FoxNews is to blame for this shit show too.
Would you hire someone to lead/watch your back then realize you have to CONSTANTLY WATCH the one hired to watch your back? What's the point? We hire people to help in order to lighten the load/worry NOT to make it heavier! Repubs, COME TO TERMS, MOVE FORWARD VoteIndependent2020
Surprise, surprise!
Seen this coming. Now the liberals want to micro manage and monitor the presidents every move. Abuse of congressional power for political purposes . If I was president I wouldn’t ever give them anything else. Just send a supenu we’ll see you in court.
Leakers kept leaking. It's interesting that you bring up including Russia. You are trying to scare everyone again. Not going to work. FISA Abuse Report coming!!!
Is this headline not supposed to play into people’s preconceptions surrounding Russian-conspiracy and Khashoggi? I hate click-bait, biased journalism. It’s sad the has taken this route. According to the article, many transcripts were limited since two leaks in 2017.
They restricted them because they were being leaked.
Gee, I cannot imagine (LEAK) why this Administration would be (LEAK) concerned at all with mass distribution (LEAK) + easy access (LEAK) to any information (LEAK) that might be purposefully spun (LEAK) to try to make realDonaldTrump look bad (LEAK). LEAKS
False fake news. Extra security was put in place after the last 50 leakers. You can't have conversations with world leaders leaked as it hinders the ability of the POTUS to do his job. I thought the AP wasn't biased?
I’m sure he was negotiating his next 2 hotels!
Because of the rampant leaks that take place. Smart move by the president.
Because of all the fkn spies and shitheel media. Cant blame him for not wanting the leaks
How about those bogus security clearances?
How else to prevent all the leaking? Comey and McCabe made leaking acceptable.
You're leaving out the part where this is SOP since 2017 after the leaks of his calls with other leaders.
Can't wait for deep state to be crushed
of course he did! too many deep_state bureaucrats working around realDonaldTrump; sadly, POTUS' political naivety didn't give him perspective to know that he needed to hire really loyal employees. Eight years of Obama hiring.
Obviously for a very good reason. Too many swamp rats (Democrat) traitors trying to undermine the president on the daily. Thank god he is president
DO YOU HAVE A POINT HERE? The phone calls of all the president's have restricted distribution. Obama was the must restricted in history. Are upset that more people have not committed treason. This person is NOT a 'whistleblower' they committed a crime
Guessing this is more fake News
Trump talking to Putin and MBS? ... recorded - and placed in a secret server to hide those calls? Oh my...
Newsflash that’s perfectly fine and how govt works u donkeys
Wait until they hear about calls to the Middle East!
Well that's what leakers cause, congratulations. Lefty does not care if they harm this country as long as they can harm POTUS They have no love for America, they are not heroes, they have no courage. They are disgusting little punks who don't understand how the real world works.
Not everyone is entitled to see everything.
Exactly the right thing to do. In order to conduct foreign policy he must limit document access to leakers and spies who are deliberately undermining the Presidency and this President.
GOOD.
Another nothingburger. When will you do a story on how the whistleblower complaint form was recently modified to allow hearsay?
Can you blame him? They were leaking like a sieve. These are protected and proprietary conversations protected by executive privilege. Leakers should go to prison
The putin tapes would be more explosive than the Pentagon papers
Really hurting national security if the President cant talk to foriegn leaders without the foreign leaders thinking the conversations will be leaked. Huge national security threat being perpetrated by the Democrats
Because EVERYTHING was being leaked to the media!
And why is this news? I've never in my life seen so many reporters making up news.
realDonaldTrump has been holding secret meeting with foreign leader's since day 1 God only knows the type of government secrets he's sold or offered these terrorist to gain wealth or and Success
Which is his right to do?
I’m sure there were other calls restricted. Given the volume of leaks, I would do the same. Swamp gonna swamp.
I smell 💩
ObamasTaliban is trying everything from prostitutes to harassment and ending up with the CIA, to overthrow Trump. Without arriving at the popular vote, which could re-elect him. In which case I would not bet a euro on his physical survival anymore (dead)😊
Duh, the fucking leakers won't stop
No shit bc it would be leaked in seconds
Finally. About time.
The walls are closing in. Finally!!!
Gee I wonder why? Maybe because they keep getting leaked to the media?
This article doesn’t say anything about what previous administrations did with their phone calls though. Nice one sided reporting.
Or jail ?
Of the reporter killing variety?
It’s called executive privilege
Yeah, let’s just send everything out the President does. In fact, let’s put his desk in the House Of Representatives!
A president has the executive privilege to do this...
Probably typical pay-for-play networking and corruption. Guy is running the US Govt like a used car sales lot.
Appropriately considering the leaking going on
Why is Trump especially concerned about people knowing what he said to a pair of criminal leaders?
Rightfully so. He is surrounded by leakers and haters.
Creating a counter intel nightmare, by hiding compromising material in code word intel, so that only Russia, Ukraine, and Saudi Arabia knew of the Kompromat, in effect aiding the enemies of USA in compromising Trump. HR McMaster, and many others have some explaining to do.
So?
What, you mean , those 'perfect lies' in his phone calls
The West Wing leaks like a sieve. I don't blame them.
Yes AP, the reason was the constant leaking that was going on.
About as surprising as a sun rise.
ITS OVER! Trump just lost the presidency! He will be impeached. Even if the Republicans keep him in office, he will still have “I” associated with his name. A disgraced president Trump (and GOP) will not get re-elected. He should resign like Nixon . He’s cornered!
“Former White House official” .............. Is anybody getting sick of this BS like I am?
Well, duh! If you had people leaking from the White House you’d do the same thing. If you were smart.....
And this is a big deal why?
Anyone else surprised ?
nothing to see here
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