Donald Trump condemns special counsel for Russia probe

>Flynn and other advisers on Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former US officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters news agency.

>The previously undisclosed interactions form part of the record now being reviewed by FBI and congressional investigators investigating Russian interference in the US presidential election and contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russia.

>Six of the previously undisclosed contacts described to Reuters were phone calls between Sergei Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US, and Trump advisers, including Flynn, three current and former officials said.

>Conversations between Flynn and Kislyak accelerated after the November 8 vote as the two discussed establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the US national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations, four current US officials said.

>In January, the Trump White House initially denied any contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign.

>The White House and advisers to the campaign have since confirmed four meetings between Kislyak and Trump advisers during that time.

Lavrov's response

>In a related development, Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, said on Thursday he saw "no secrets" in US news media reports of apparent security threats by ISIL that were divulged by Trump last week.

>US news media has reported that Trump disclosed classified information about a planned operation by ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, to Lavrov when they met at the White House on May 10.

>"As far as I can recall, maybe one month or two months earlier, the Trump administration had a laptop ban from seven Middle Eastern countries, and that it was connected directly to a terrorist threat," Lavrov said in Nicosia, Cyprus.

>"If you are talking about that, I can see no secrets here."

>The comments were the first on the issue by Lavrov since his meeting with Trump at the White House and the subsequent controversy over what was discussed.

>On Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin also dismissed suggestions that anything in the conversation was classified. He said he was ready to prove it by supplying Congress with a transcript.

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>Not using the picture of the guy jamming the stick into his bicycle

ffs, the best thing he can do right now is shut the fuck up. If he keeps sperging over every news about this. its gonna make people think he has something to hide .or That he's trying to keep something a secret.