Thursday 19 July 2018

Step forward summit interpreter, tell us all.

Wouldn't it be terrific (a Trump word), fun and possibly unpredecedented if the American interpreter who took notes at the summit between Trump and Poot'n came forward to tell us all what was said during the two hours the two leaders chatted together in Helsinki? Trump hasn't told us, apart from saying it all went wonderfully well. But sitting to Trump's right was a woman, an employee of the State Department who translated every word spoken by Poot'n for Trump's benefit and then listened to the president replying. She knows precisely what the two men said. She has been identified as Marina Gross, and the Democrats want to subpoena her to force her to reveal everything. Pretty tough on her because she was just doing her job and should not really be involved in all the political schmozzle. But she is in a unique position. Only she can be trusted to give a verbatim account of the words spoken. Whatever Trump claims he said to Putin, you can't be absolutely sure he is remembering right or telling the unvarnished truth. Sorry, Mr President, but's the way it is and has been ever since you took over in the White House. There is now a third version of what he claims to have told Putin about Russian interference in the US elections. Now he's saying he accepts Putin personally would have known about any Russian hacking of the elections and told him to stop it. Ms Gross is either nodding her head in agreement or looking totally astonished by Trump's post-summit statements. So, just to clarify the whole thing, why not get her to spill the beans, all of them? But, on the whole, I think that would be unfair and would make her job in the future, and other interpreters' jobs, impossible. But oh oh oh wouldn't we love to hear what she recalls? It would be historic. Of course the other person who knows exactly what Trump said is Putin. But no one will believe what he claims Trump said, even if it is true what he says he said!!!

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