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2-9-2021

Trump hid his calls with Putin.
Now, Biden has access to them.

What was said between the two leaders is a great mystery, one that advisers to the current president say is imperative to find out.

Trump closely guarded his private conversations with foreign leaders while in office, going as far as to have some hidden in the NSC’s top-secret codeword system to limit staffers’ and even cabinet members’ access and prevent leaks.
Readouts of their calls would often come from the Kremlin first,
or through Trump’s Twitter feed.
But while the calls were not recorded, aides were typically still on the line and taking notes of what was said. The resulting loose transcripts are known as “memcons,” or memorandums of conversation.

Trump went to particularly great lengths to keep his in-person conversations with the Russian leader private, from confiscating his interpreter’s notes to forgoing American translators and notetakers altogether in their meetings. That desire for secrecy has extended even past his time in office. One former Trump official argued last week that records of Trump’s conversations with Putin, which often lasted an hour or more, should not be made available to his successor.

Memcons, including Trump’s calls with Putin, are considered presidential records, and were not expunged before the 45th president left office, one former Trump White House official said.
They were transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration at the end of Trump’s term, as is customary.

“Of course we didn’t delete anything and they would be in NARA and accessible,” the official said.

Kel McClanahan, executive director of the law firm National Security Counselors, agreed as a legal matter:
“The only person who can claim executive privilege anywhere
is the sitting president,” he said.
“So there is literally no situation, nor could there be, where a former president could keep a sitting president from seeing something.”

Trump’s interactions with Putin and other Russian officials were certainly far from the normally carefully choreographed talks between world leaders —
Trump early on in his tenure went as far as to disclose classified information to Russian diplomats
in the Oval Office.

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