Maddow:Mueller has personal letter from Trump to Putin

[dewsgirl]

Her source is Washington Post.😨

[enough]

1. Original story:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-a-personal-letter-trump-invited-putin-to-the-2013-miss-universe-pageant/2018/03/09/a3404358-23d2-11e8-a589-763893265565_story.html?utm_term=.1ef7cb9350e8

[janx]

6. I no longer have access to WaPost.

Can you give a short summary?

[BumRushDaShow]

9. The reporter just got done calling into Rachel's show

Donald Trump was so eager to have Vladi­mir Putin attend the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow that he wrote a personal letter to the Russian president inviting him to the event, according to multiple people familiar with the document.

At the bottom of the typed letter, Trump scrawled a postscript adding that he looked forward to seeing “beautiful” women during his trip.

Trump’s letter to Putin, which was described by people with knowledge of its contents, shows how interested he was in attracting the personal attention of the Russian president. The real estate magnate, who owned the Miss Universe pageant, wrote the note at a time when he was looking to expand his brand to Russia.

The letter, the first known attempt at direct outreach by Trump to Putin, has been turned over to investigators probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 campaign. It is unclear whether Trump’s missive was ever delivered to the Russian president — and if so, whether Putin responded.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-a-personal-letter-trump-invited-putin-to-the-2013-miss-universe-pageant/2018/03/09/a3404358-23d2-11e8-a589-763893265565_story.html?utm_term=.703180e56b9f

The possibility on how Mueller could have gotten a copy was supposedly because Drumpf tended to have staff generate and send out his correspondence after he signed - but would scan first to email it (vs snail mail) and if that was the case, then the letter may have been an attachment on someone's email.

[janx]

10. Thank you!

[SergeStorms]

18. I guess the "news" part of it is......

just how in hell did Mueller get that letter? If Mueller has something this personal, a person to person letter, what else does Mueller have access to?

[flibbitygiblets]

20. Agreed, this is neither a bombshell nor a smoking gun

tRump's an attention whore, of course he would beg a high-ranking official to come to his shitty pageant, to get more publicity.

This letter was sent in 2013, so unless it can be proven that trump was running for president back then, he was a private citizen.

[TimeToGo]

24. Even if he was running

[dawg day]

29. Sometimes if you right-click--

On a WaPo link and choose "incognito window", you can read the article.

[Stallion]

2. ...With Trump's Handweitten Note at Bottom

[UTUSN]

3. So SHITLER tried to be a PIMP for Puteen and Puteen turned into a kompromatter for SHITLER?!1

[Flaleftist]

39. His comment about wanting to meet beautiful women..

I recall seeing an interview clip where Trump mentions a gift he received from Putin on that trip but he wouldn’t elaborate.

[GusBob]

4. The easiest asset the KGB ever recruited is now our president

On his knees taking Kremlin bukake everyday

God help us

[dewsgirl]

17. +1

[Volaris]

25. That ALMOST sounds like a french pastry I haven't heard of,

Except I spend enough time on the disreputable parts of the Internet that I believe the truth of Rule 34 lol...

[Laffy Kat]

26. I made the mistake of Google-ing it once.

[GusBob]

38. On the sports forums, sometimes, it means

You are owning your opponent in the fourth quarter

[uponit7771]

5. All of them, down to the last person is scummy as hell

[Blue Owl]

7. The minuscule, moving hand of tRump

n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

19. Nor all (our) Tears wash out a Word of it.

I'm guessing Trump now regrets that he had to have someone scan his actual letter to email to Putin...such that there ended up a copy of it lying around.

[Ilsa]

8. 2013 letter inviting Putin to Miss Universe pageant in

Moscow.

Maddow is wondering how Mueller's team got the copy of the letter. Probably was scanned and filed digitally, in which case more people would have copies.

[BigmanPigman]

21. Yep, that is common and probable and she reported that this is likely

the case.

[pbmus]

13. Hope Hicks....

[orangecrush]

23. I believe

you nailed it!

[lindysalsagal]

14. If Mueller has that, damn, he's got everything.

45 should be squirming.

[Blue Owl]

15. "Love letter straight from his heart..."

n/t

[GreenEyedLefty]

16. I read this in Mother Jones. Detailed description of the few days Trump spent in Russia.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/russian-connection-what-happened-moscow-inside-story-trump-obsession-putin-david-corn-michael-isikoff/

[orangecrush]

22. Oh, THERE IS MUCH MORE FROM RACHEL!

The Prime Minister of Malaysia visiting the White House as he was being investigated for stealing billions, and his ties to the head of finance of the RNC....

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a988471e4b0a0ba4ad18d65/amp

"Congatulations, American taxpayer! You now own a yacht!"




Positively on fire tonight!

[triron]

30. This part of her show was fascinating.

[orangecrush]

33. She seemed, to me...

to be simply amazed at the level of corruption.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Not just a yacht

a $250 million dollar one!

[orangecrush]

32. With sexy Barry White music

playing in the background!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

34. LOL yeah

I kept yelling at the TV whether they paid the estate any royalties.

There's another thread in GD with the youtube video but here it is-

[orangecrush]

35. ...

[BumRushDaShow]

36. ...

[orangecrush]

37. ...

[czarjak]

27. Putin...

Knows a slobbering jackoff idiot when he sees one.