{"id":73027,"date":"2017-05-22T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73027"},"modified":"2017-05-22T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:46:03","slug":"trump-i-never-mentioned-israel-to-the-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73027","title":{"rendered":"Trump: I Never Mentioned Israel to the Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Bill Hoffmann<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump insisted he never mentioned Israel to Russian officials during a conversation in Washington in which he reportedly revealed classified information believed to have come from the Middle East ally.<\/p>\n

“Just so you understand, I never mentioned the word or the name Israel,” Trump told reporters ahead of a bilateral session with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, CNN reports.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The commander in chief, who is on his first foreign trip as president, then scolded journalists, telling them, “You have another story wrong.”<\/p>\n

However, news reports on the revelations never claimed Trump revealed Israel as the source,\u00a0 just that he shared the information with the Russians.<\/p>\n

Trump has been under fire for allegedly telling Russian officials during their Oval Office meeting earlier this month that ISIS had stolen airport security equipment<\/strong><\/a> to test a bomb that could be hidden in electronic devices as well as the origin of that intel in Syria.<\/p>\n

U.S. intelligence then asked NBC not to report specifics about the equipment that ISIS stole, where it stole it, and the name of the Syrian city where the intel was gathered.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/strong><\/a> reported that classified intelligence Trump \u00a0disclosed<\/a> was provided by Israel<\/a>, which the newspaper said “adds a potential diplomatic complication to an episode that has renewed questions about how the White House handles sensitive intelligence.”<\/p>\n

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