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Originally Posted by Skybird
The Donald now gags free media and bans a correspondent from Rose Garden becasue she asked questions on Putin that the Donald decided were "unappropriate for the event". Reminds of Putins and erdoghan'S press conferences with their hand-selected questions.
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Yup, and White House's transcript of the Trump - Putin meeting has been edited to remove the question to Putin whether he wanted to see Trump win the election (to which Putin answered 'yes').
At the time of writing this post, the question and answer are still missing from the transcript:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings...ss-conference/
EDIT: Same with the Kremlin transcript, the question has been removed:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/58017
EDIT2: To clarify, Putin's answer can be found in the WH transcript, but the question has been edited from:
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President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election, and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
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Q And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
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Which makes it look like it was a follow up question to the previous, which it wasnt.