Read the Full Transcript of Trump’s Call With Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
On the call, Trump endorsed Duterte’s murderous “drug war” and repeatedly addressed the possibility of a U.S. nuclear strike on North Korea.
Last month Donald Trump spoke by phone with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and was widely criticized by members of both parties for inviting the strongman to meet with him in the White House.
The Intercept obtained a transcript of the call and is publishing it in full. On the call, Trump enthusiastically endorsed Duterte’s murderous “drug war” and repeatedly addressed the possibility of a U.S. nuclear strike on North Korea. The transcript, which contains numerous typographical errors, is an official document of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs. Well-placed sources at the Palace and the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed its authenticity to reporters for the Philippine news outlet Rappler, which collaborated with The Intercept on this story.
The White House readout describes the call as a “very friendly conversation”:
President Donald J. Trump spoke today with President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. It was a very friendly conversation, in which the two leaders discussed the concerns of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regarding regional security, including the threat posed by North Korea. They also discussed the fact that the Philippine government is fighting very hard to rid its country of drugs, a scourge that affects many countries throughout the world. President Trump enjoyed the conversation and said that he is looking forward to visiting the Philippines in November to participate in the East Asia Summit and the U.S.-ASEAN Summit. President Trump also invited President Duterte to the White House to discuss the importance of the the United States-Philippines alliance, which is now heading in a very positive direction.
Here is the transcript:
Disclosure: Omidyar Network is an investor in Rappler, an independent news organization based in the Philippines. The Intercept’s publisher, First Look Media, was founded by Pierre Omidyar.
Top photo: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a joint press conference with Thailand’s prime minister in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 21, 2017.
It was enormously controversial that Trump placed a friendly call to Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte in April. Now, we can read what they said.
So people are hammering Trump for this phone call.
Read the transcript. Really.
Trump opens with a compliment. Honestly, if Mexico took the approach to it’s gang lords and drug dealers that Duterte is taking, we would have a lot fewer problems here in the US.
Countries like the Philippines don’t have our infrastructure or resources. If our law enforcement shows up it is game over for the bad guys. In poorer nations the conflicts are much more equal, and therefore more violent.
Then Trump discusses North Korea with Duterte. This is obviously the reason for the phone call. Keep in mind that national leaders don’t just pick up the phone. The calls are arranged in advance by staff and both sides have a basic idea of the issue that will be discussed.
Duterte is rightly very concerned about Kim Jong Un. The guy is a nut job.
Trump reassures him by saying that the US is positioned and ready to act, but is waiting for China to deal with it. He encourages Duterte to also reach out to China.
If China wants to lead Asia they have to deal with mad dogs like Kim Jong Un. Trump is militarily ready to nuke North Korea but really does not want to do so.
It is interesting to note that there was no discussion of airstrikes or ground troops. Trump is not playing around. He made it very clear that he wanted China to resolve the situation but would obliterate North Korea if they became a real threat.
Duterte agreed with Trumps assessment and promised to reach out to Xi Jinping.
Trump closed the call by saying, “God bless you.”
I found that to be an appropriate way to end the conversation. The Philippines is home to millions of people who are good people that work hard. They had just been discussing military aggression from North Korea which is a huge issue for the Philippines as they are a U.S. ally and much closer to North Korea than we are.
You would have to be an idiot to find fault with this call.
Duterte is not a perfect person, and I am sure he has done things that are reprehensible but he is responsible for the safety of his nation and that is all this call was about.
where do you get you misinformation from.
he has made major major positive in to the massive drug and corruption problems here as well as making changes that benefit the people here,
less crime and better services to the people is in no way negative.
you are currently a propagandist as you facts are not real
If Trump thinks Duerte is a ‘good’ man, then who in his view is a ‘bad’ man? Apart from Kim Jong-un, that is.
Funny, I was certain that the following would be somewhere in there:
Duterte: Why are you calling me? You are not even a real dictator. How many people have you actually killed?
Trump: I tried to throw 24 million people off health insurance. Some of them obviously would have died from that.
Duterte: And yet, there they all are, still clinging to life. Call me when you’ve actually accomplished something.
This leak is yet another example of the termite infestation of our government. Imagine if conversations between Stalin and Roosevelt had been leaked during WWII. Would the editors at the Intercept have exposed that “Conversation with a Mass Murderer”? Not likely. Roosevelts AG would have thrown them in jail, and destroyed copies of the publication. But we are not in a declared state of war now and unlimited 1st amendment privileges apply. My question: If getting phone transcripts of our President is so easy, why doesn’t the Intercept have access to transcripts of the 30,000 missing Clinton emails? Answer: Because the termites have a dubious mission.
Wonderfully stated! I couldn’t agree more.
RT did an interview with Duterte.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHjlCmdyesY
The leaks of the so called “private or classified” conversations between a legally elected President of the United States and other world leaders are clear indications that there is an unelected body in USA with a gigantic ultimate power to subjugate POTUS, Congress and Courts system and get them thrown out of the office! This also means, the personnel populating the US Executive Branch, Congress and the courts system have no power except to toe the directives given by this ultimate power elites monitoring their every move and every word!
It would, therefore, not be a stretch of imagination to conclude that the US elections held every two and four years to fill seats in Congress and Executive Branch are merely masquerade parties to bamboozle American voters to buy into narratives that they have some stakes in the bloody game! Well, American voters have zilch! The elected personnel in Congress and Executive Branch, like MSM, are messaging tools to confuse the public!
Furthermore, the MSM leakers have inadvertently revealed to the world that the powers behind them have unique capabilities of listening to anybody hooked onto some communication devices. That means, these elites also have the abilities to listen to, identify, know, and apprehend the illicit drug manufacturers and distributors who are making tons of money targeting certain sectors of the world population and turning them into useless walking zombies, incapable of taking care of themselves, leave alone family members!
For families with an addicted loved ones, the psychological impact of watching a loved one dying a slow and painful death is itself a psychological slow death sentence! Few family can afford the high cost of drug rehabilitation, which is often offered through professionals with connection to the illicit drug manufacturing and trafficking elites!
The illicit drug manufacturers and traffickers are fully aware they are DELIBERATELY converting human beings into disabled folks whose brains have been subdued with illicit drugs they manufacture and distribute! THEY are aware, but they do not care!
The leaking elites have the means to monitor every step taken and word spoken, not only by the POTUS , but also by every citizen of the USA and probably of the world. It is known they were monitoring the conversation of the German Chancellor and president of Brazil.
The question is: Why have these elites not used this unique gadgets to monitor and apprehend drug traffickers who are killing millions around USA and the globe? Why don’t they use the same gadgets to also target and stop child sex traffickers? Or illegal human organ traders who snatching human organs from the poor population of the world?
WHY ARE THESE destructive activities NOT TREATED AS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION ISSUES by MSM?
for the same reasons that illegal wars, wmd, and wallstreet thieves who rob america are not prosecuted.
the establishment/’elites’ are in control of, and greatly profit from the illicit international ‘drug’ trade. as someone who supposedly is aware of the ‘deep state’ that’s more powerful than official governments, how can u not know this?!!!!!!!!
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/CIA/Drug_trafficking
as someone who is aware of the ‘deep state’ controlled by ‘elites’ that’s more powerful than official government, how can u not know that the establishment controls, and greatly profits from, international illicit drug trafficking?!!!!!!!!!!
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/CIA/Drug_trafficking
If you believe that it is OK to kill “criminals” with out trial then you accept that the same can be done to you when your actions do not agree with the government or the majority or a religion. You stuff the genie back in the bottle once you let it out.
Nothing there? Where’s the transcript!!
Scroll up, you twit. If you don’t see it, adjust your browser settings or consult someone with normal vision for assistance.
This is a non-issue – more FAKE NEWS.
“However, as Emily Jashinsky of the Washington Examiner notes, the U.S. Navy publicly announced April 25 the presence of one of the nuclear-powered submarines in Busan, South Korea, four days prior to Trump’s conversation with the Philippines president.
“Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Michigan arrived in Busan, April 25, for a routine visit during a regularly scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific,” the Navy announced.”
http://www.westernjournalism.com/media-hysterics-trump-revealed-publicly-available-information-philippines-president/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=westernjournalism&utm_content=2017-05-26&utm_campaign=manualpost
This reads like a conversation in the looney bin. Neither of these two ‘world class’ idiots are in complete touch with anybody’s reality but their own. Dutarte is trying to backpedal off a threat he claims was made to him by the President of China – his great hope for Korean peace.
Putin’s probably smart enough to realize that Dutarte needs the same treatment about Russian weapons as he gave the Iranians … delayed delivery …. only longer.
Here is a thought:
Isn’t this utterly idiotic: the system has evolved where all people on this planet do accept without any resistance or criticism, that all government officials’ conversations are conducted in secrecy, behind closed doors?
Sure not all people need to know all the details. But if officials are honestly working for the benefit of the populace, why keep all discussions secret?
Exactly. Secrecy is dangerous, not only because it deprives the people of the information necessary for them to make informed decisions, but also because it promotes falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
As an example, if Obama had let the public know the contents of the TTP and TTIP treaties, and Clinton those of NAFTA, perhaps the latter would have been made better as a result of public pressure, and the bad aspects of the former would have been removed, leading to benefits to all nations concerned. But they could not do that, because doing so would have revealed how those treaties benefited large corporations and hurt the working class in every country involved.
It’s not working – no link for the transcript. It’s just blank.
I feel sorry for you “the intercept” you get your facts from Rappler.. Here in philipines everyone knows that Rappler is one of the Fakest fake faker than chinese product when it comes to news reporting… So picking up garbage from a dumpster is now your thing?
Something has gone nuts with the MSM. Are you telling people that being a drug addict is a noble human right that must protected and celebrated? Are you bloody kidding me?
Could this be the reason why the deep state has been involved in crack cocaine epidemic in black neighborhoods; was this a charity operation?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/10/gary-webb-dark-alliance_n_5961748.html
Something has gone nuts, indeed, and it is with Trump supporters. What Duterte is doing is empowering extrajudicial murder of people, ostensibly drug dealers and drug addicts. No due process, no rights of the accused. I decide you are a drug dealer, so I am free to take out my piece and blow you away. This is what Trump is condoning, and what his supporters apparently condone. How utterly thoughtless!
Notice also that this is not limited to drug kingpins, or even street level dealers. Duterte has compared himself to Hitler and has stated his intention to kill all the addicts, even if it adds up to three million.
But come to think of it, if we murdered all the tobacco addicts in this country, we would enjoy greater longevity and lower health care costs due to the elimination of lung cancer and the stark reduction in coronary disease. And who could possibly object? I mean, an addict is an addict, right?
Taking drugs is not only a human right but part of our collective culture since the first Neanderthal ate that first magic mushroom.
Most people in the USA take drugs, either from a doctor or dealer. For you a good idea would be to kill them? Children taking CBD oil during cancer treatment, the elderly taking some form of marijuana to give her an appetite so she can eat and live a few more days. And yes, the recreational user. We exist in numbers you wouldn’t? believe and we function in every day society. We are your neighbors, your family and your friends. Go ahead, pull the trigger, we are garbage right?
Who are the elites manufacturing and distributing drugs to poor countries, like Philippines, which turns millions and millions of citizens around the world drug addicts? Why is making money by addicting humans and ruining their lives around the world NOT A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION? WHERE ARE THE UN AND HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH when humans are being killed by illicit drugs?
Yes, it is a reason to be skeptical when the loudest voices are defending drug dealers at the expense of millions upon millions of suffering families.
Bernie get your socks on.
New elections coming up. Time for a decent president !!!!
You people just placed other human beings in harms way. Whether its Filipino, Koreans or Americans, your irresponsibility will be your undoing one day, I hope karma bitches on you all slowly & painfully and may you never have heirs, ever.
Nobody is a traitor and nobody stole anything.
I read these zealous followers of Rodrigo [Messiah] Duterte and his 12 apostles
(President Rodrigo Duterte, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre, Philippine Police Director General Ronald Dela Rosa, House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, Former Interior Secretary Ismael Sueno, Police Superintendent Edilberto Leonardo, Senior Police Officer 4 Sanson “Sonny” Buenaventura
Police Superintendent Royina Garma, National Bureau of Investigation Director Dante Gierran
Solicitor General Jose Calida, Sen. Richard Gordon, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano)
they express righteous indignation as per their scripts but the truth is dear boys, in case you did not know, Duterte ordered the “leak” of this document and you and a few others have been asked to protest the leak:. I was asked too but for me this was the last straw. IO quit the peanut gallery.
My my my :: the drama of the unloved child, Rodrigo [Jesus] Duterte, the Philippines Messiah, now loved by many.
Duterte ordered the leak to setup and kill the critical reporting of Rappler because Rappler writers refused the bend-over, free-lunch-and-glossover Inquirer treatment whose editorial policy went from critical to Kissass. Holy sh#t! Can you believe what we are seeing?
You so-called dudes (girlie-boys?) are lining up to get a doot poke like it were a lollipop. You’ll see it hurts either way in the Philippines, tow the line or mow the line, be scared either way.
Actually, Maria Ressa and Chay Hofilena of Rappler admitted and defended the leaks. So your claim that the President himself ordered it is false. It is on their respective Facebook accounts, set to be available to the public, you can check for yourself.
The US is allied with lots of murderous dictators, why is Duterte different? Oh right – Duterte criticizes Washington and wants US troops out of his country.
The Intercept is now being written by whores (with the exception of the Mr. Greenwald).
“It was enormously controversial that Trump placed a friendly call to Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte in April.”
It’s far more controversial that some traitor stole and published a classified discussion between the United States President and the president of another country. Whoever did that deserves the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg reward.
I won’t read it…it’s Confidential.
As if being president of the United States was some special noble thing!
So funny. The POTUS is not a noble position. That office hasn’t deserved respect in my lifetime. What a joke!
respect ha ha ha! Disgust is more appropriate.
Not only that, but clueless Luke did not bother to read the article which clearly states that the transcript was produced by the Philippines.
It’s more likely that this person is clueless as to the principle of the matter. This hit piece would be the same regardless of the source of the leak. The principle stands.
It’s called diplomacy.
Please semd me the full transcript. I cant read all in this site.
I like how the latest trend among left-wing news sites is to attribute its articles to multiple authors. As if the fact that multiple biased, out-of-touch, wealthy New York elitists contributed to them somehow adds more of an air of validity and authority to them.
So, I guess you did not read the transcript. You see, they feel the need to write an article because they know that the average reader has a 30 second attention span.
^– Does this guy not realize that his president is a biased, out-of-touch, wealthy, New York elitist?
Am I the only person who actually read this transcript? This is a bunch of milktoast bullshit.
Is this seriously the level of banality that takes place in calls between leaders of entire countries? These guys sound like a couple of frat bros texting each other on a Saturday afternoon.
Aside from the revelation that the president of the US condones extrajudicial murders on a large scale, it is also revealing of his complete disrespect for US military operational security. I worked closely with the US Navy for several decades and NEVER saw or heard any mention of details of SSBN deployment locations. By his statement Trump has told the world in effect what our entire SSBN deployment is. Example: Putin now knows that there are 32 Trident missiles, 192 thermonuclear warheads, that can’t be used against European Russia; moreover he knows how many can be.
Second, it shows how utterly lacking Trump is in ideas as to how to deal with Kim Jung Un. Apparently he believes that the two alternatives are to have China handle it or for us to attack North Korea. What about alternative measures? What about our other allies, like South Korea? The winner of the recent presidential election in South Korea wants to try returning to negotiations with the North, and Trump has undercut him. Not only that, but to admit, even to an ostensible ally, one’s own powerlessness is a sign of weakness, which the Chinese have very certainly noticed.
It would be very useful if people carefully considered the implications of what Trump is saying, rather than skimming for dirt or engaging in knee-jerk partisan reactions.
Fuck you for putting the entire Philippine nation at risk. Rappler, by the way, is a paid media outlet by the Liberal Party whose only objective is to discredit Duterte.
Filipinos love Duterte and we support his drug war. No amount of bad publicity you throw at him will change our mind because for once we have a president who’s not controlled by the oligarch owned media.
Again, fuck you.
Trust me, most Americans feel the same. Disregard propaganda pieces like this that were written by upper-middle-class New York champagne socialists, who pretend to be humanitarians by patronizing and infantilizing minorities, foreigners, and poor people in order to signal their virtue amongst their peers, but who wouldn’t be caught dead associating with actual poor or working class folks (calling working class whites “trash”, gentrifying blacks out of their own neighborhoods, etc).
Out-of-touch people like these three mopes have a far louder voice in the arena of public discourse than is justified or warranted. The majority of Americans – even those who didn’t vote for Trump and who stayed home on election night – don’t take them seriously.
Kill the poor! Kill the addicts! Who says who’s an addict? The president!
You like living in a country like that? What if I were pissed off at you and planted drugs in your apartment and called the police? Or told them your son was an addict?
Can you not see how barbaric this is?
Drug dealers and users are not a loss for civilized societies!
Apparently, neither is the judicial system.
Well of course the Globalist Oligarchs and their lickspittle media and Dem/Repub lackeys hate hate hate anyone who is a nationalist, like Duterte. I mean, CAN YOU IMAGINE, ruling a nation in the interests of its PEOPLE rather than to further the interests of the rootless cosmopolitan class of globalist billionaire nation wreckers!! How could you EVEN think of doing this to Mark Suckersperg???
And this is just why they hate Trump. He dares, even slightly, to defy the people who want to make debt slaves out of the entire world.
Simple rule of thumb: the more the collective media hates someone, the better he is. The more the collective media loves someone, the worse he is.
Did no one else notice the typo in the very first paragraph?
A typo in the legal disclaimer of an official top secret cover sheet!?!?
Please, this is what we call journalism nowadays.
What typo on the cover sheet?
Well, the typo was mentioned in the article. The document would appear to have originated from a Philippine government office. English is not the first language there, so a typo might not be noticed as easily. I’ve had typos in official legal contracts before, where everyone who works at the firm is a native speaker.
Nope just a poor fake propaganda piece
CATERPILLAR: THE LEAK CAME FROM RAPPLER A PAID MEDIA BY OPPOSITION OF DUTERTE {LIBERAL PARTTY) WHO INVENTED ejk ISSUE.
THEY HAVE THE MONEY AND STILL CONTROLS MEDIA ALL OVER THE PHILIPPINES.
WE ARE SURROUNDED BY FAKE NEWS FROM THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND NOW THEY WERE DOING ILLEGAL JEOPARDIZING THE WELFARE OF OUR NATIONS.
RAPPLER WAS SHIT AND PAID.
THEY HAVE TOO LOW ENGAGEMENT BUT THEY PAY HIGH VALUE SO EVERYTIME YOU WANT TO SEARCH ANYTHING ABOUT PHILIPPINES THEY WILL BE ON ABOVE LIST.
THEIR PROPAGANDA IS TO DESTABILIZE OUR GOVERNMENT AND PLACE THE LIBERAL PARTY TO CONTIMUE THEIR CORRUPTIONS.
NOW REMEMBER THERE WERE A LOTS OF KILLING IN MEDIA PERSONALITIES BEFORE DUTERTE ADMINISTRATION. THIS IS THE REASON.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA WERE ALL PAID TO EXTORT EVERYONE.
REASON WHY SOME OF THEM DESERVE TO DIE.
“MAINSTREAM MEDIA WERE ALL PAID TO EXTORT EVERYONE.
REASON WHY SOME OF THEM DESERVE TO DIE.”
Thanks for showing us you’re completely unhinged, provide no source or evidence for your wild claims and have fascistic tendencies. I knew there’d be inbred filipino trolls in the comments, I’m not disappointed
You mean just like this crap the Intercept is peddling. This is all unconfirmed crap. They have zero named sources. Also, if you read it-it sounds very scripted. I suspect someone is trolling the media (again).
How Rappler misled EU, Human Rights Watch, CNN, Time, BBC — the world
http://www.manilatimes.net/rappler-misled-eu-human-rights-watch-cnn-time-bbc-world/318078/
“That 7,000 figure is false, from a fake news fabricated (or stupidly calculated) by the financially-bleeding news website Rappler (rappler.com) and repeated in Hitlerian fashion by Yellow propagandists that even Western media which are normally fact-check obsessive, have assumed it to be an accurate figure released by the PNP.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBvjdiHh7Lc&t=20s
How Rappler misled EU, Human Rights Watch, CNN, Time, BBC — the world
http://www.manilatimes.net/rappler-misled-eu-human-rights-watch-cnn-time-bbc-world/318078/
“That 7,000 figure is false, from a fake news fabricated (or stupidly calculated) by the financially-bleeding news website Rappler (rappler.com) and repeated in Hitlerian fashion by Yellow propagandists that even Western media which are normally fact-check obsessive, have assumed it to be an accurate figure released by the PNP.”
Geneva Presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBvjdiHh7Lc
Aziz Abadsafian: All government employees swear loyalty to the Constitution FIRST. Loyalty to the President comes second.
Sym: No, a majority doesn’t support the President. They certainly didn’t at the election, and most polls say they still don’t.
The #1 legal blog in the USA is run by the legal scholar Jonathan Turley. He trumped Trump in this piece published today.
https://jonathanturley.org/2017/05/24/you-are-a-good-man-trump-praised-philippine-president-dutertes-for-his-blood-soaked-crackdown-on-drugs/
Thanks for that!
I’m sorry but this is the lamest piece of fear initiative fabricated propaganda I seen in a while. Which means since lunch.
99% of all ‘leaks’ are on purpose.
You are correct this is fake propaganda who would believe this !! ha ha ha
the world is going crazy mainly becuase of media and gullible fools.
The President makes a phone call, we get the details of what he said a day later in the press. Unless he made this call from his cell phone in a stadium surrounded by hundreds of others who heard the same, how difficult is it to figure out who it is that is sharing this information and the details of the call with the press.
FIRE EVERYONE that was in the Oval Office or in the limo that was with him at the time the call was placed. Problem solved.
Dude. Why fire anyone in the oval office? The transcript is (reportedly) a Filipino gov’t document. It’s one of them there ‘details’ that puts things in perspective.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzz, more interested in how Dumbo used government agencies to spy on American over the last 8 years. DC is such an American Disgrace.
The left seem so interested in Trump’s leaks – problem for them is all the leaks show legal behavior. Obama and Hillaries leaks show objective breaking of the law – plus Podesta talking about a “hit” in seth rich. But the left have no interest in that.
I didn’t know asking Comey to hold off with Flynn’s investigation, asking if you’re under investigation and ultimately firing Comey was legal behavior. Hint : it’s not, it’s an obstruction of justice. Can’t wait for the orange idiot to be impeached
Unfotunately we do not know if these are true and complete transcripts of the call. The press is so complicit in keeping up the division in the country that if we find out in a month that this was a abridged transcript, will their be a page one “we are sorry” and outing of the person that leaked the abridged edition?
The short answer no. Ratings are all that is important not honest journalism.
Right again, first it’s not Trumps place to tell him how to fight his drug problem , and Trump did not give him a glowing review on his method and second most of the conversation was about N Korea, disgusting article by a non journalist
Hence fox news
100% Wrong. The WH has confirmed the accuracy of the Philippine transcript.
I see the Nazi scum is in droves here on The Intercept today.
Lots of liberals showing up today?
Good. I hope that they do drop a nuke on KJU in Korea. And I hope it’s done from the Philippines.
I’m also very happy that the druggies in the Philippines are being executed. Most of them have connections with Al Shabbab.
This is proof of felonious leaking from those inside the White House, Secret Service, or other US Federal Agency. It is incumbent on the FBI and Department of Justice to investigate, arrest, and PROSECUTE the TRAITORS that are behind this leak. This is TREASON, along with a dozen or so FELONIES for disseminating Secret information. Those responsible need to spend the next 20 years in Federal Prison (or better yet, hung in the public square).
Yeah, like trump
It’s a Filipino transcript, which means the leak likely came from the Filipino side.
What’s controversial is deep state leaking top secret discussions. President Trump could have callled to make sure his bumbershoot was in working order in case any stray typhoons caught him off guard and the very fact that the private conversation being leaked “SHOULD” be the story but of course remnant Obot media who haven’t finished their ball washing tour will focus on the fact that The Don was trying to develop a rapport with a leader who had been leaning towards China…a fact that seems to have been missed by the ball washer league.
This was presumably leaked by someone in the Phillipines, not the U.S. “deep state”, since it is a Phillipine government document. I’m sure U.S. authorities prepared their own transcript, and that is not what was leaked. (Which begs the question, can’t two leaders have a genuinely private conversation, without any transcripts or recordings? I’m also wondering what the initials PRRD stand for as a term for the Phillipine president.)
PRRD = President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
Wait, wait…it IS the deep state…working to create a nonincriminating transcript, peddaled to a foreign media, disguised as an official native document. That nefarious Deep State, trying to paint a picture of a POTUS who…uhhm…makes phone calls and chit chats pointlessly with foreign president. Lordy, Jess nailed the conspiracy.
Let’s not forget about Trump’s hotel in Manila. He has his investments to keep safe.
All I am interested in is who the leakers are and when and how will they be punished. These traitors are destroying this country and I believe should be executed for their devious and antiAmerican activities. I hope it will stop soon and each and every one of them, especially the intelligence agencies, will be caught.
you throw the word execution around like you’re eating popcorn Pat…you got to be careful with things like that because you might just find yourself in a situation some day where you’re looking at “eatin the cookie”
So, Patricia, enlighten us as to how you think the leaks are destroying America.
yawn…..more Democrats committing crimes…..
This article, more fake news, assumes the drug war in the Philippines is similar to the one in the us. So people think the high schooler smoking pot is being killed in the Philippines. NOPE. The drug war in the Philippines has a long history of corruption and extreme violence including sex slavery. The drug are used to capture females and export them to sex trafficers. Now this is just one crime. Usually drug battles result in the lose of civilian life. This president, while I do not nessesarily support him, is trying to solve this issue. Since he got in office the murder rate is down by 50 percent and sex trafficing has been reduced as well.
Even though since he has taken office over 7,000 people have been killed because they were supposedly drug users or dealers. How can anyone feel that this is a good way of curbing the drug problem?
This is Treason , and its Seditious to post it . Our nation is in trouble. The democrats are undermining our GOVERNMENT makig it impossible for our Duly elected President to even hold confidential calls. IT IS NOT wha he says or does not say that is bad IT IS THAT SOMEONE STOLE AND LEAKED it that Puts EVERY man woman and child in danger .
What a lie. The democrats are undermining our nation. You are a rather misinformed republican and supporter of Trump. If you can’t see who is destroying our country, take a look at the new Trump budget. If you still think that the democrats are writing Trump’s budget, then you are in bad shape. Once you read the budget and then support the republican agenda, you are the one that is destroying our nation. Get a clue.
One thing is sure, the media hates Trump and would toss America under the bus in a nano second to bloody his nose. Pathetic traitors should hang….
I support the pres. Fuck the media.
The fact that this was leaked likely by Obama-holdovers shows two things…
1) President Trump needs to weed out and fire the people committing these crimes (yes, it’s a crime to leak confidential information)
2) The Democrats are not interested in National Security. They are interested in power and will commit treason to get it, because they know the “news media” in this country is dead and has been replaced by a bunch of lapdogs.
Trump troll! If you had read the article you would know that the material came from the Philippine government.
But I understand. If the truth is inconvenient, you make up an alternative.
Having served on the NSC and worked numerous Presidential phone calls, I can tell you and say that this a total fabrication.
More of the lame stream media monkey business. What’s next? President Trump’s bathroom habits? You guys are desperate and make yourselves look stupid.
An extremely irresponsible article.
I think that the people who are leaking these transcripts and the media outlets that publish it are putting are national security at risk and should be prosecuted under the Espionage act.
Drug dealers need killing. What’s the problem.
Honestly, I’m not so in favor of Trump. (I respect and am indebted to those who sacrificed in order to protect our ways and speak our minds). But I’m x100 more ashamed at the staffers in the White House and government level who are leaking things. You serve the president of our country- not the people. The president serves the people. The senate and house serve the people. Etc.
If you cannot serve your country by serving the president and by actively making the staff at the WH a laughing stock, you should leave. If you decide to handle sensitive information for Obama but can’t do it for trump you are the MOST unethical and disqualified person for the job. You think everyone in the secret service or military likes the decisions made by higher ups? Hell no. Yet they do their duties. They represent their country by standing by their country – for better or worse. If you have no loyalty to the country or your job and you destabilize the presidency by working against your boss…that’s grounds for dismissal. Every baby at the whitehouse should thank a soldier for their sacrifice because of this were a country like Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, or the Philippines, they would be shot and made an example of.
Rappler please stop your propaganda our president is supported by majority
this is why
https://www.rt.com/shows/rt-interview/389163-philippines-duterte-interview/
Wow! Obama is like a case of head lice at an elementary school
Funny, at this point nearly all comments are pro-Trump, not SJW’s whining about this supposedly “enormously controversial” event.
Man, I need to start getting my popcorn ready and enjoy the show of the media, Democrats, and everyone else on the Left absolutely losing their minds of every non-issue they can desperately cling to. Thanks Mr President, for ensuring the next eight years will be some of the most funny years of my life.
I firmly believe VP Pence and the other RINOs they packed in the White House are leading the leaking effort in an effort to take down Trump via slow-motion coup. Also receiving help from Obama’s posse. It’s one-party rule in America.
Publish all politicians’ conversations. Leadership comes with a price. We don’t elect people so they can have a brief stint as a monarch in the US. Theoretically, we are electing representatives of our own thoughts and perspectives to look out for our interests. In reality, we get to choose between the 2 choices the corporatocracy allows. After we’ve chosen between McDonald’s and Burger King, the masters of men then believe they should be able to act in the dark on our behalf.
It’s funny that the elite often use the “nothing to hide” argument when they want to take away more of our privacy and civil liberties, while at the same time demanding complete privacy for their actions while entrusted with public service.
What a load of crap. Once again, the leaker is a “Big Secret”!
Why don’t you report about the atrocities the illegals have committed, or the real number of victims of Illegal immigrant crime?
Here is a good one to report, why don’t you report how HILLARY Clinton really got away with literal Murder.
The only people who care are the democrat’s committing treason.
Trump commits treason against America’s basic values when he says Duterte is doing “a great job” “on the drug problem” by encouraging the mass murder of (suspected) drug users. (Unless this was a ploy to play one “madman” against another; he does spend most of the conversation talking about North Korea.)
The Democrats are attempting to make mountains out of mole hills, and are also attempting to create issues where there are no issues. The sad thing are the uneducated and misinformed people who listen to them and believe them. These are people who can’t think for themselves, but rather rely solely on gathering their news from CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC CBS which are proving themselves to be unreliable sources of anything to do with the Trump presidency and administration.
Liberals are always whining about Trump talking to people supposedly because they are bad people. Or it snubs one country leader over another (but also plays that both ways) Like when Trump talked to the Taiwan leader before the Chinese Leader and said Trump Snubbed China, then a month later the main steam media said the reveres when Trump talked to China about North Korea. So answer me this, where was The Intercept crying about the the 44th president when he was talking to members of the Terrorist Group “The Muslim Brotherhood” actually in the White House? Oh they are not Terrorist you say? Ask the Countries they tried to over throw during the Obama sponsored Arab Spring.
National leaders communicate with each other and the President of a the United States of America is no different no matter if it’s President Trump or not. It is sad how stupid Americans have become and even worse than than them is the foreigners who are spouting bullcrap when it’s not their business.
Looks like fake news to me
That was as benign as it gets. I want my 6 minutes back. I think Obama is using a back door to swipe this info from his lair just a few miles away. You know Obama likes back doors and Turkish Baths. It’s his thing.
Really. 87 comments. Not impressive.
Well, now we know for sure. These aren’t ‘White House Leaks’, by some staffer. These are our country’s own embedded Obama intel leftovers committing treason.
Obama should be arrested and executed for high treason, and this person, whoever he/she is, should follow him to the gallows.
If you are a Mexican drug dealer and you have been easily smuggling drugs into the US and you hear President Trump’s praise of Philippean President Duterte, you might consider finding an honest way to earn a living, That is if you don’t wanted to hunted down and shot like Duterte does with drug dealers in the Philippeans
We don’t respect the ‘Rappler’ in Davao. We view it as just another liberal fake news site repeating the fake news from other fake news sites.
If it’s anti-du30, anti-US, anti-Trump, anti-Catholic…you can expect ‘Rappler’ to be playing it up big time.
We love du30 and what he’s doing for us.
I find it interesting, that of all the comments on this article…they are all negative and appear to be written by staunch right wingers. Seems a little fishy to me.
Great catch by the Intercept, though there’s no scandal here. It was a polite conversation. Duterte’s war on drugs clearly has its problems, but he has the mandate of the Philippino people (at least for now) so I think Trump had best not interfere.
I feel bad for whoever leaked this, though. Duterte’s gonna be furious.
You and those people who leaked this to you need to be in jail.
What is with this BS that Trump is not allowed to improve relations with heads of state Obama couldn’t get along with? And what is with all this BS that every head of state Obama didn’t get along with is made out to be some kind of monster?
I really am starting to think Obama and the media think Obama is still president. They are not letting go.
Aaaaaaaaand…there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that phone conversation at all.
Is this supposed to be scandalous or something?
These “leakers” need to be identified and stopped. Pronto. This cannot be allowed to continue.
The supreme wicked game of the corrupt in the USA against foreign nations is to subdue any foreign politician with psychological friendly manipulation to break resistance while appearing as the benefactors of the world,. The corrupt deep/shadow state pauppets appear in benefiting foreign populations but rather, the foreign population is separated with news propaganda. Don’t let the USA occupy the sovereignty of any nation state because a prolong colony in the form of military basis is not a benefit to any free foreign sovereign nation while offering smoke and mirrors in order to occupy their minds with propaganda manipulation and deceit.
I would not be surprise if the terrorist in philipines are also a clandestine ground for breathing them as the USA did and does in syria deliberately and clandestinely. Don’t ask the USA for help as such help is more like psychological maneuve that will come to ruin when fighting terrorism in the Philippines; just look at the fake propaganda of “weapons of mass destruction” and concocting sabotage in Syria against the Syrian government.
Contrary to popular opinion I have never seen North Korea bomb Doctors Without Borders with impunity.
Your inane comment makes you look ignorant and immature.
No your retarded ad hominem attack shows your ignorance. Alejandro is exactly correct.
You must work for a dictator somewhere. America will stand against dictators and tyrants in favor of self determination and freedom. It is why people who favor dictatorships must lie about American freedom.
Right…the dough boy uses flamethrowers and antiaircraft guns on his people, starves them to death, assassinates them, all the while he living high on the hog. Dork
Fake News? Conversations between heads of State are automatically Top Secret under US rules, aren’t they? So why is this US side “cover sheet” labeled “confidential”?
So what? (a) The Philippines are a critical ally in the struggle against China’s South China Sea aggressions. (b) We will nuke the North Koreans if that’s what it takes to stop a DPRK nuclear missle launch. Trump is going to talk about these things with our allies.
you don’t nuke someone and have everything return to normal you moron you…
The Leaker’s Punishment by Law is a Firing Squad.
They will not be Blind folded.
As of Yesterday.
Report: White House leakers caught,
Apparently three White House staffers have been caught as the sources of leaked classified info
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/05/22/report-white-house-leakers-caught/
Treason, pure and simple. These leaks are dangerous and an act of treason… It needs to be stopped pure and simple.
Can you define for me what is a strongman?
Reads pretty good to me…
“Well placed sources”. More anonymous crapola. Does anyone still believe this junk? OK, here’s one for you: “Well-placed sources in the Pentagon have revealed that the United States is holding seven aliens for ransom. Their craft crashed into a field near Bozman, Montana and was recovered. The government is asking for plans for a death ray by noon, July 7, 2007 or the captives will be electrocuted.” To with that one.
Intercept just got trolled with fake docs… lololololol.
You Should Not Be Publishing these kind Of Confidential Documents that don’t Confirm some kind of Illegal Activity. This is a Total Breach of Privacy, a Threat to Our National Interests, and Probably should be Illegal. Shame on the intercept
OMG, the horror of establishing better relations with the Philippines in regard to China and N. Korea.
Liberals want to control what, when and how everything that is said by every American. Of course this doesn’t apply to them, because they’re not real Americans.
That’s a “liberal” thing? Are you fucking serious? Is Trump against the NSA spying on everyone? Oh wait, only when he’s the one being spied on. Let’s ask the conservative crowd(McCain,Graham et al)if they want the NSA to cease and desist.
Seriously? Why the hello are you people listening in on a phone convo… I’d be pissed.
This is fake news.
The FBI and intelligence agencies, and Congress, should be outraged and hyper-focused on getting to the bottom of these leaks. Instead, they’re pushing this fake Russian narrative. The deep state must be brought under control or this country is done… it WILL BE 1984, only worse, because the surveillance capabilities are much worse than even Orwell ever though possible.
Do whatever it takes to find the leaks. Start by getting rid of all staff installed by the last POTUS.
I am so sick of these leaks. Whether you voted for Trump or not, HE IS THE PRESIDENT. NO ONE could be worse that B.O., the Shiite Muslim who hates America and funds millions to a terrorist state so they can develop nuclear weapons. These empty leaks tell us one thing…we have traitors in our midst. Could you do your job with every conversation you had published? I don’t care what “high & mighty” reason these media losers and asshole armchair pundits have for publishing them. I don’t care about how he conducts a conversation. To quote Hillary, “What difference does it make?’. This leaking is wrong. This is going to backfire against the Loser Leakers and Traitorous Media. Democrats committed real transgressions and crimes, yet they got a pass. The Loser Leakers are shaking in their boots because they are losing control. They have never met a foe like Trump. They can’t take him down because he hasn’t done anything wrong and he has the cojones to tell them to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine. Trump understands the average citizen, going about their day, taking their kids to soccer, and living paycheck to paycheck. This will not turn out good for these cowards and their house of cards. The great patriots of this country will rebel before they let these piss ant, Loser Leakers affect the direction of our country. President Trump, when you find them, I hope you show NO mercy.
Where are the legitimate leaks about Obama’s crimes? Hillary’s crimes? Where are those leaks?
Mealymouthed slimy politicians who say nothing at all, whenever they speak, simply do not understand a businessman who negotiates & knows how to start a relationship. 10-20 years for leaking conf. info.
“It was enormously controversial…among liberals, activist, and Democrats”. Everyone else expects Trump to do his job. I hope those involved in these leaks are quickly brought to justice.
you are correct Yez, the libs are mental. It’s got to the point where one cannot live a normal life without being assailed from all sides, all media, “Trump Trump Trump” they have Trump on the brain. The corruption is so rife in DC and even more so in the USA’s propaganda machine – or mainstream media – that it’s getting to the boiling point where average people will soon descend on Washington DC in the millions, we will storm the Capitol Building, Congress, the Senate with pitchforks and torches and we will be stringing up these good-for-nothing grifters from lamp posts and bridges, under highway overpasses and from trees. NEVER AGAIN will they go into Washington poor and come out one of the 1% after selling out our country. It will all change very soon. The army will of course be summoned to protect the scum, but they will whistle dixie and find themselves in our crowd, and the evil demons who’ve destroyed America will finally pay for their treason. Feinstein. Pelosi. Schumer. McCain. Graham. Cummings. Clinton. Abedin. Weiner. Priebus. Ryan. There are so many. Party doesn’t matter. WE THE PEOPLE are who rule this country, but they need to be reminded. WE will decide – Ivanka and Jared OUT. OUT OF THE WH. We didn’t vote for these shitheads? WTF is going on?
Quickly!!! And with no leniency what so ever!
Agreed. All of these leakers need to be fired when their identity is made know, and made known very publicly, and then indicted for treason.
Presidents talk to other leaders, from all countries. It’s what they do, it what we expect them to do. Sheesh, numbskulls.
You are so stupid :)
I hope President Trump finds out who the leaker is and gets the book thrown at him.
was this written by the WH? this reads like they knew it was going to be made public. good for him i guess.
These leaks need to stop, because the next leak will be a critical weapons system, and it will be done just for the sake of bringing Trump’s presidency down.
Another slanted and misrepresented news story. Poor dirteaters lost the alcoholic/hag. Are they going to keep spinning around in their own waste?
It is astonishing to see what leaks out these days. Trump meets with Lavrov and the next working day it is in the WaPo what they have discussed. Now this. Trump took care of Comey but has a whole lot more cleaning up to do.
Where is the FBI regarding these leaks? Oh wait, they are probably assisting the leakers, or at least protecting them. I no longer have any faith in the FBI.
The Intercept just got played. The transcript reads positively for Trump, almost as if the White House knew its contents were to be leaked, perhaps even by them.
Interesting. Could the admin be testing staff for leaks? Just wondering.
The Intercept didn’t get played……….they know exactly what they’re doing, which is to attempt to cast President Trump and his administration in a bad light in order to stir up those who are uneducated and misinformed.
It’s time for treason charges and the death penalty for these leakers. Whether it’s true or not there is a concerted effort to undermine everything great about America and it’s freedom.
This wasnt a leak out of the US. The transcript was provided by the Philippines.
What difference does it make WHO leaked the information, point is it’s not meant to be public.
Yez. Go fuck yourself. These fuckers claim to be our representatives. The public have every fucking right there is to hear what these fuckers have to say behind closed doors. If you can’t grasp it, you need to wake the fuck up.
ValkLeroux you are an idiot with a foul mouth.
Yes, I’m the idiot. And you trust a man child, but I’m the idiot. Did you blush when Trump talked about grabbing pussy? Go fuck yourself with your hypocritical bullshit.
See Joe? What difference does it make if the transcript came from the Philippines? Leakers, so called , should all be hanged even if they are not from the United States and even if the evidence was provided from the Philippines. Ever get the feeling you’re talking to a brick wall or a robot? Maybe even a trumpet-bot? Unfortunately this site has been overcome in the comment section with this type of crap which shows that the powers that be are incredibly threatened fight excellent journalism. I am so ecstatic if they are threatened. They can’t even manage to make an intelligent comment. Thank you Joe for pointing out this staggeringly obvious point. Many wouldn’t have missed it.
You have the right idea.
We’re clearly seeing an attempted coup by deep state. The irony is, in years past it was outfits like The Intercept who were often shining a light on the Deep State and it’s vile tactics. Now, they’re actually aiding them.
I hope we’re never in a war with Trump as President, because deep state will be sabotaging every move with leaks. I’m reminded of WaPo’s sadly ironic tag line at the top of their website – “Democracy dies in darkness” – so we’re going to use deep state accusations and rumors in order to overthrow the Democratically elected President”. Trump Derangement Syndrome is so fascinating!
Anyway, I tried to read the document but died of boredom. Sounds like Trump was trying to get sh** done while everyone behind his back works to sabotage him.
Im not for killing people but i think Duterte needed to send a message. Sometimes the good guys need to strike fear in the face of evil.
Wow. I’ve never seen so many MAGA chuds in a comment section defending dear leader’s syphilitic dementia speech patterns.
“I understand that and fully understand that and I think we had a previous president who did not understand that, but I understand that and we have spoken about this before.” What the fuck is he even saying? That’s not how a healthy mind processes language.
You elected a jowly, perverted neocon with a 200-word vocabulary, and Duterte won’t be happy when he finds out about Donny’s other vices *sniff*
There isn’t anything wrong with the communications between the Presidents of the Philippines and the USA. In fact, it is rather enlightening.
Sure, Potus confirms what we knew of him, and i’m sure the leak is real considering how hard it is to invent a conversation with so few vocabulary (amazing, the best, terrific job…)But i haven’t read anything closed to treason from Trump. eventually, this will comfort him in his witch hunt rhetoric .
It sounds like a five-years old conversation but at least both kids agree that it is bigly not cool to nuke the planet, considering that the one-year old madman has the nuclear power as a toy…Somehow, i’m relieved!
The problem with trying to impeach Trump at all costs, even if we had to leak the size of his penis is that, meanwhile, he’s doing the job of destroying everything that steps in the way of free-proamerican trade…
Because it’s easier to keep whining that he should have been elected, or pray for his impeachment than to fight him in the ground of real activism : protecting the land, the water, the air, the people !
Probably harder to fight big oil corporations along with the Natives of Tortoise Island to protect Mother Earth, than to rely on something new about « the Russian Meddling »
I’m not talking of Greenwald now, because he’s the finest analyst i know and has proven to take many courageous stands (Dude, that’s just like, my opinion man…) but is there anybody else to fight fairly, with reliable arguments ? I would say Tulsi Gabbard at least tried to understand the situation in Syria, a few others supported or covered the protests against the Dapl in North Dakota (Amy Goodman, Bernie Sanders).
And now Red Fawn, a water protector faces a 20 years on false charges. Please call for a whistle blower to report about big corporations that are provoking an ecocide and labelling activists as terrorists
Leak about the infamous arms deals that were already boosted under Obama and that continue. The problem with Trump’s leaks is that they all seem to come from unknown top officials, and that most people don’t trust the ones that already sold us wrong wars.
Deep State, the military industrial complex get to impose its agenda, no matter the presidents.
« The Intercep”t is an excellent alternative media. But it should bite where the other medias won’t. So don’t keep hanging in false hopes of indictment and take a real fight against Trump : we need civil disobedience and find ways to beat the powers that be by raising awareness on the true fights : Mother Earth, the water, the air, humanity and all of the animals. Everything but this fool’s game.
This document is interesting as historical, but won’t help much the cause to my opinion.Yet your philosophy is « if you know something, leak something », so i suppose you did the right thing, but please : it’s time to rebuild this world, not to fall in the collective hysteria of common democrats that fail to question America before the Trump episode.
Obama could not protect indigenous rights against corporations, Hillary supported fracking (well sometimes not so much depending on the audience), Obama was bombing 8 countries, selling weapons all over the Middle East, approved how many drone killings involving many innocent victims. They’re sucking the earth everywhere. Surveillance was reinforced (read The Intercept) and yet so few alerted about that…Those who are wakening to day were sleeping yesterday. America is violent, ask the 100 millions of Native Americans that got wiped out of their land. If you want a better America, teach awareness !!!
Know your history ! You have now a 5 year-old spoiled rich white kid pretending to be John Wayne showing U.S arrogance in a very unflattering manner. Most of the time, Deep State favors the most seductive pawn they can find, but this time it failed, the ugly one was elected!!!!
Get a grip.
That 5 year old rich white kid is doing a great job for true Americans. Now if you are a bleeding heart Liberal I can read your disgust with John Wayne so take your analogies and stuff them. I believe Trump and John Wayne are, and were, better Americans than you try to get people to believe you are. Confusing replies make for reading material for the ignorant, as the DNC refers to them, Liberals. Enjoy your day and may the hounds of hell play with the leakers.
(Well, that’s just like your opinion man !!) Mister “true american”, there are only one per cent of true americans in YOUR country…And not me of course, because i’m french (frog) even if i lived a few years in the beautiful Turtle Island (Seattle). I ain’t no liberal either for i never could stand Hillary warmonger Clinton (well, she’s not liberal either i admit). I suppose you’ll tell me to f*ck off for being french and still allow myself to comment on U.S politics. I’m not sure who are the “true americans” benefiting from Trump, but it was never my point to pretend anything about that. You might have found offensive that i compared Trump to a five year old… But my point was more that all sorts of raw critics against Trump are more based on his personality rather than what he actually does…You might like him, and i don’t see anything wrong with that. Still i wonder how cutting every social rights and not caring about Nature or “your” water’s sanity in favor of Goldman Sach and other big oil corporations (like Energy Transfert) is gonna help in any way to make America great again…But it’s a bit early to comment on Trump’s policy. And i don’t like injustices, even against Trump. But of course, reassuring people that you have a large dick because someone said you had small hands is so mature, that may be I should have stated a 7 years old boy instead of five…Any way, I still love your beautiful country, so don’t get me wrong before someone starts insulting me…because that only my point of view, and it’s fine that we all don’t think the same. 1st Amendment ! Peace. (oh, and don’t worry, i am way more sarcastic when it comes to french politics : somehow, i prefer America over France).
Thanks Mr. Emmons and Mr. Grim for this interesting insight into the thinking of our President. The comments here for this article that seem to support extra-judicial killings and imprisonment as part of a Filipino war on drugs are disturbing. Perhaps the worst of the words expressed are not as awful as they sound since the visibility of The Intercept may well be generating an organized and well-funded online opposition by any number of “intelligence” services. Beyond the disappointing apparent willingness to murder others expressed in the comments, the easy willingness of President Trump to talk of using nuclear weapons is extremely disturbing. The ease with which he seems to commit to using nukes suggests that the deaths of lots of innocents in an offending country is not really a concern for him. Murdering the people one doesn’t like is relatively easy for any government to do, whether they be accused participants in the Filipino illegal drug industry or Koreans following another leader willing to talk in very threatening ways. However, the precedent set by approaching the world in this way is that anyone the government decides is an opponent can be dealt with without attending to the niceties of the judicial system. The likelihood that this particular “solution” will always be applied to people we don’t like seems very small. Giving any leader this kind of authorization will end in disaster for all of us. One final point regarding the unspoken belief expressed here in the protection provided by our overwhelming nuclear arsenal. If we attack and wipe out some country and they have ten nuclear weapons pre-planted in ten US cities how much good will all our defenses be and who in the world community will be sorry that we’ve received back a measure of our own illness.
Sorry, but who cares? This isn’t even newsworthy imo.
.duterte hates george soros
.phillipine president duterte announced to soros, “There’s a bounty on your head in these islands.. ..there’s a special place in hell for you idiot, step one foot in this country and my duty is to make you go straight there.”
https://youtu.be/2aoStEmNR0Y
.it would be nice if more world leaders big balls like duterte
What a pathetic hit job, weak and poorly written. I would be ashamed to take credit for writing that. Truly a waste of time on both yours and our parts for reading it. You don’t know how much credibility you as so called journalists are losing with this on and on and on bs . Let it go he won he’s our guy and believe it or not ww2 and Joseph Goebels is dead. Stop the propaganda media now is becoming the fascists the nazis were. You guys are losing respect day by day more and more. You had better wake up. Be arrogant and think you’re right but there was a reason we voted him in. We are sick of the bs. You are now becoming part of that.
This is wrong… Yeah, I don’t like that Trump is being so chumy with dirty duerte but geez… these leaks gotta stop. He needs to fire the whole staff and replace them.
Seriously? Lol @ you idiots for thinking this even matters to anyone. You guys are so desperate not to mention pathetic. Objective journalism fell by the wayside and you 3 smiling taking credit for being the authors? I can not fathom what type of life it takes to become a person who calls this their job and think that it was a good one good enough to put your names to it… Good for the Phillipines who I actually spoke to people on the ground there this past Saturday and they love their president as well as what he is doing with the drug dealers. As for Trump good for him and I hope he can keep pushing against you jokes of journalism you bunch of liberal ass kissers of the biggest crook to ever hold office named Obama . You guys really show your talent or lack therof and good I saw this click bait fake news waste of time. It is of no value. None! Why do you people think you are going to convert the public to think as you do? This is looking more and more like ww2 and the work of Joseph Goebbels the real fascist regime is our damn media. Truly a sad day when you either are so willing to run smear campaigns to garner attention or you are that weak you can not find a real and honest story. Tell us about all the laws HRC should be charged for? How about the administration. Of Obama as well as him possibly? Seriously get a life and a backbone you lost this reader now and forever and it’s not due to me being pro Trump it’s honestly the storyline, the sheer fake shit with it , how it was obtained and the presentation. I am writing this on a small phone riding on a boat and hell my comment is better than your article. Get over it we voted him in and by God we matter as much as you do. You lost this time get the hell over it and grow the hell up.
Trump needs to find at least 2 leak sources and prosecuted them for treason and show no mercy. ONLY when they realize that national security isn’t a thing to be political with will the tides turn.
In this case, the leak came from the Philippines.
Totally agree. The leakers must be locked up.
Why bother with a trial? Why not simply round up several suspects and execute them along with a few journalists to get your point across? Just gun them down on the white house lawn in front of Fox News cameras.
You over complicate things with a trial.
Amen, start with traitors like trump and bannon
An excellent, measured phone call. Determined to find common ground, giving respect and encouragement. Straight out of negotiation success methods.
Dang, makes me proud of Trump.
The last time I checked, leaking is a felony. Every suspected leaker needs to be polygraphed and indicted and jailed if they did in fact leak.
Time for journalists to go to jail!
Matt Drudge, you need to keep this fake, nobody cares, crap off of your report. President Trump has had a wonderful trip overseas, and mended fences and brought esteem back to this country! Please don’t belittle and under mind him anymore. He is working so hard to keep promises and do his job. This is breaking my heart to see his efforts all for naught with this kind of garbage! You can control what is on this page!
The only problem here is criminal disclosure of classified info, hope they catch the traitor that leaked this.
Intentional leak! NK better be ready for Hell to be served!
Whoever spied on Trump, got the transcript and released it to the media have got to be investigated for spying and treason…except they don’t investigate themselves.
Nothing here offended me. It just makes President Trump look even better.
This is espionage and you all should go to jail.
I wholeheartedly concur. Enough is enough and an all day execution is the only answer.
This transcript makes me RESPECT him more. I love our president.
I would believe this more if endangering were spelled properly. Come on now.
Trump is finally gonna clean house because of you. Bye bye RINOS.
There is absolutely nothing here in furtherance of the public interest. This is pure “look at us, we can get secret stuff!” espionage. The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column. Unamerican trash.
Keep up the awesome job Mr. President.
We, who voted for you, are with you 1000%. Those who did not can suck it!
Shake them up, break them down, and cut OFF their welfare while you’re at it.
#MAGA
America FIRST!
Go get ’em TRUMP!!!
An encouraging phone call. Good to know Trump in private matches Trump in public.
Why don’t you try to snoop on the chats of the Chicom, Nork or Russian leaders. Or is that too dangerous to you and yours?
The person who leaked this revealed the amount of nuclear subs we have near Korea. Well done you just put millions of lives at risk.
Good Stuff! That was a great conversation, please post more positive stories about President Trump. ALL the media outlets that continue to trash this President are only proving they’re as unpatriotic as we always knew they were. Like Dan Rather interviewing countless soldiers in Vietnam until he finally found one that objected to war to push…..the Mainstream Media’s Anti-American Agenda. Some things never change. lmfao
Drain the swamp of obstructionists in 2018! (McLAME, Stretch Pelosi, Maxine “TS James Brown” Waters, Paul Rino, Schmuck Schumer, Lindsey Graham, *itch McConnell and as many nauseating politicians as you can find). Replace these guys with people who will support our electoral process, and our President.
Trump 2020
These leaks have to stop. They are directly interfering with the President. This is criminal to leak it and to publish it. No, I didn’t read this nonsense
I don’t believe this transcript. Duterte does not speak English fluently and his language is filthy and vulgar. There is not a swear word here. This is all made up to make Duterte look good. Fake!
When John Bolton was being considered for Sec. of State, Bolton claimed that he could get the government agencies to go in the same direction as Trump.
This is a grotesque display of yellow journalism. Everything to get traffic, well it worked.
Traitors.
mentioning we have nuclear subs there and firepower is, “repeatedly address(ing) the possibility of a U.S. nuclear strike on North Korea”? You sir are fake news.
This is fake. It’s retaliation for what could happen with the Seth Rich thing. Nothing more.
I don’t believe any of this nonsense, just more press BS and propaganda.
This if in fact is true, there is no doubt that the communist pig named Barry Hussain Obummer left operatives that are trying to undermine our President. They need to find out who in the hell is this leaker, if they can’t fire everyone at the NSA, shut the damn thing down, fire all of the State Department employees, same with anyone at the FBI and CIA that may have access to this information and you will see how quickly the problem is solved. Communist pigs and traitors, they all should be executed for treason!!!
What a breath of fresh air…no lecture from a U.S. President to another sovereign national leader on ‘human rights’, unlike that ‘son of a whore’ that proceeded him.
It’s gone too far. At some point the respect the office of President holds regardless of who is occupying the position needs to be restored. What this does only will lead to tighter more insulated and less transparent government. So while the media delights in its role to unseat an elected US president, it’s actions are working against democracy. It’s appalling to see the level to which this witch hunt has escalated to. Rather than prove the claims of Russian intervention and focus it’s efforts on one thing, it’s decided that was enough to completely blow the lid off of whatever it can get it’s hands on regardless of the consequences.
Pretty sure he uses a secure phone, imbecils.
Just clear the room, man! Kick’em out for chrissakes.
Fake News
Two rare good leaders. Only better with Clint Eastwood on a three-way.
The media has a bad case of ‘Cindy Brady Syndrome’.
You should be embarrassed.
At least he did not airlift them pallets stacked with cash.
Do we have any transcripts of the HUNDREDS of meetings Obama had with Google? Facebook? What about John McCain’s meetings with his little terrorist friends in the ME?
Oh that’s right… THAT’s the Swamp and they protect their own.
the only one who could possibly leak this type of confidentiality is the FBI. it’s that slimey comey – he’s behind all the leaks and needs to be tried, convicted and sentenced.
Liberals everywhere…are their none that could or would work at , say Washington Post or Times Newspaper. Bastions of free speech. Oh wait bastards of their freedom of speech only! How low has journalism sunk. I think they need to “DRAIN THE SWAMP” at The Intercept.
Oh, I remember you. You were the guy that got scared of debating MILO. Can’t really blame you though, he would have wrecked your ‘career’.
More BS Fake News
And Exactly How Did you get this; and, from WHOM?
They cannot divulge that info… it’s confidential.
Oh so THEY are allowed confidentiality but our President isn’t? Hypocrites. Jail them for treason!!
We expect Trump to talk to whomever he wishes. Totally his call at ALL times!!!!
Sad to hear that Trump would support the policies of Duterte, whom has encouraged the killing of thousands of suspects without any judicial process, even offering money per dead body produced. At least the US has a strong constitution and bill of rights to prevent these human rights abuses from happening.
And…….
Looks pretty tame to me. Where did you get it?
I hope Trump cans all these Obama FBI holdover leakers and has them arrested!! MAGA!!
Where’s the Intercept’s leaked DC Police report on Seth Rich?
Yawn…….More meaningless information.
Why would the Phillipine government have a cover sheet in English when their official language is Filipino then English. It would have been bilingual at a minimum.
who cares this trump attack stuff is getting old fast
This transcript has been authenticated by anonymous sources at DNC,CNN,MSNBC,WASHINGTON POST,New York Times. And what ever other Libtard they can find to write this Rubbish!! FAKE DEEP STATE NEWS!!!!
Trump gives a thumbs up on cleaning up murderous drug lords and druggies that prey on their neighbors. Yep, your liberal sewage is showing. Coming down on the side of trash. Wake up hypocrites.
All you have to do is take a look at the bios of the guys running this website for it all to make sense. The Nation, Democracy Now, ACLU, Young Turks, MSNBC, the Huffington Post? Need I say more. These guys have no agenda. Lefty kooks.
This news outlet should be prosecuted for publishing the transcript.
What is wrong with you idiots, oh yeah, Trump derangement syndrome. I guarantee none of these scum bags have ever served America in any capacity. definitely not in the military. How can you accept the greatness of American freedoms yet seek to erroneously tear them down? I really don’t understand
Trump spoke to Duterte LAST MONTH. You know absolutely about the history of the Philippines. Let me remind you. Circa 1950’s. The communists were about to take the Philippines (THAT’S A FACT” The then president of the Philippines, name Ramon Magsaysay put a bounty on the communists. 100 Piso for a soldier, 200 Piso for sargents, 300 Piso for a lt, 500 Piso for captains and above. Within a year, the communist threat to the Philippines was gone. All they needed to do was bring their heads to any police station. Today, the biggest threat to the Philippines is “DRUGS”. You must admit that the problem is now less because of what Duterte is doing. It’s called a “WAR ON DRUGS” and he’s winning it.
FAKE NEWS
Actually it’s real.
If the intercept is fake news did President Trump is a genius. I think you are a fake Commenter. This side is overrun by bots, This site is inundated by fake commenters who get paid to write lies. I could spend all day every day refuting these lies but I don’t have the time. I had such trouble writing this comment computer wise that it makes me think something strange is going on.
you libtards (and conservatards that can’t read) didn’t bother reading the article’s preface and cover sheet. it is a transcript produced by the philippine government.
SOOOOOO, if you think the NSA,FBI or some other alphabetical political or law enforcement unit released this, think again.
Love all the moronic comments here by conservatives about how this is treason. If you had any ability to read or pay attention you would notice that this was not leaked by anyone in the U.S., but by the Filipinos.
So, which one of you Liberal liars wrote this toilet humor? You show three names but are afraid to identify the individual responsible for this unconfirmed trash.
We are getting tired of this incessant pounding of Trump by the media. It is getting old.
These leakers need to be found out and prosecuted and thrown in jail. Those conversations between the President and other leaders are private and classified.
One needs but read this document to see that it is in its present form a hoax.
So now we get to read the presidents private conversations. Cool. Are there any transcripts of President Obama? I thought so you freaking partisan A holes. I bet we would find all sorts of nice tid bits about Medved and Putin ? How about selling off our uranium. I say those that are in the know should release right NOW everything from the last 20 years with no label on party politics. If not then shut the hell up about your opinions on what a President says or does not say.
Hey, where are OBAMA’S private conversations???!!!!
Exactly!
“I can’t defend Trump on this so I’ll talk about Obama and Clinton.”
The election’s over. Nobody cares. He’s all yours. It’s on you now.
BUTBUTBUT THEE MAILS.
This is a phone call that is very diplomatic. I can imagine Obama, Bush, Clinton or Bush the elder having a similar conversation. The fact that classified documents are being leaked to the news media and then mis-portrayed to try to damage POTUS IS A PROBLEM. The problem likely emanates from 2446 Belmont Rd NW, Washington, DC 20008. Likely from the laptop of one Valerie Jarrett who is a permanent guest of the homeowner.
The intelligence community is obviously leaking this. Polygraph every one of them.
Who broke the law? Break their b–ls or stuff their —–
You can’t publish something like this. This is dangerous, for good reason confidential and about an ongoing situation. What idiot would leak something like that during negotiations even? Military secrets and all..30 years prison?
I live in the Philippines over the winter. Still here for 2 more weeks.
83% of the people support Duterte.
Almost every Philippine person I know supports Duterte.
YOU FOOLS NEED TO TALK TO PEOPLE ON THE GROUND.
MSM ‘reporters'; Talk to people on the ground? But, but that would be actual journalism, we’re not trained for that…
Yes. Have friends in Cebu also 2 in BJJ are from Mindi both support him I AS AN AMERICAN SUPPORT HIM! Emilia screwed PI for shoes and life style. I hope we BECOME FRIENDS AGAIN. #SanMiguel #IronHorse #SubicBay #ClarkAFB
So now you idiots take the word the idiot dictator as fact?
It’s time Trump found the leak and plugged it.
whoever the leaker is needs to be SHOT.
The MSM is surely on a crusade to “dump Trump” against the wishes of the majority of honest, legal, decent, tax-paying American citizens. Our “progressives” aka Democrats are the very definition of HUBRIS.
Hillary and Obama did MANY TIMES WORSE things – Hillary revealing state secrets via her email, Obama by overtly acting beyond what he KNEW were Constitutional bounds. From the MSM… a meek sigh…
“Progressives” and the MSM have shown their cards – utter hypocrites bent on tyrannical rule.
Bitch, you lost pop. Get it right repubtard
orange boy has got the lowest ratings of any president in history for the time he’s been in office moron…
Sounds good to me, hope someone is hung for the leak…His name was Seth Rich! Prasie KEK!
As a Trump supporter I simply don’t care if he talks like this to other leaders. At least he’s not a back-stabbing Obama. Trump would still beat Hilllary if the election was today or 6 months from now.
Kick these commies and druggies in the balls
Or what you can grab
Looks like a good call to me. Didn’t China get rid of their crippling opium problem similarly?
I agree. That was a great call.
“A CALL WITH A KILLER”
what?
more fake news!
he was NOT talking to
obama!!!
Shut down the NSA. Simple. Easy.
Give EVERY one of them a polygraph
“Endagering”????
So, the US Government cannot spell check?
The next question then has to be; is this legit…or like one of those pfishing emails written by a non-English speaking scuzz?
Did you read the transcript? This didn’t come from the US government.
It came from the Phil. government.
Anyone find it odd that Obama never had conversations leaked? Definitely a political agenda here. They need to find this weasel.
What if Trump is releasing these conversations on purpose to show the public
Whoever is behind these leaks belongs in PRISON.
Assange must be having a lovers quarrel with His Peachness or something to be leaking this stuff. Omg! Or was it Putin?! Maybe these lovebirds are in a love triangle, and none of the three mantastic tyrants wants to be the wide receiver in the scenario. And who invaded who’s “special border?” Stay tuned!
Matt Drudge put up the link that led you here to read the transcript. Do you mean he should be in prison? Or perhaps you should be in prison for clicking on it and reading classified information. I’ll save you the time of turning yourself in and report you to the authorities!
The Filipino people love their President. The drug flow and terrorists were taking over a whole society. How dare you twist this and act like the Philippine President is a killer. He’s taking out the real murderers. You are sick.
Um they are killing non-convicted, non-charged men, women, and kids, only repubtards should be treated like this.
Whoever leaked this committed a felony. Hope they think it was worth it sitting in Federal prison.
Just so the rats would understand – no, not a chance they would:
– Duterte is not a ‘strong man’ and the dumbos state here. He was duly elected and, believe it or not, he is ENORMOUSLY popular in his country. But… That does not matter, of course, because he does not do ‘diversity’ and he doesn’t seem to care much about homosexual marriages so he’s bad.
– His country is plagued by a drugs epidemic. Apparently, US-based Filipinos are pumping drugs into their former country and getting rich in the process. The local people are HAPPY that, finally, someone is doing something about it. They seem to believe that it’s better to kill or imprison as many drug dealers as possible when the alternative is to see their own children wasted. I’m wondering why.
So, yeah, go Duterte!!! And keep doing what you are doing and, hopefully, do more of it.
I don’t care what Trumps said, it doesn’t matter to me, unless u’ve got Trump Derangement Syndrome or a Lunatic Leftist. Who cares, but whoever released this info at Intercept should read the first few words and should have charges pressed on them.
Trump is the man. The whole damn system is trying to take down the first civilian ever to win the presidency and bring sanity to US policy, and they still cant take him down! God I love it, they must be going crazy that they cant succeed in getting rid of him for the status quo. The people got your back, Teflon Don
ObamaGate will be the greatest scandal in American history.
Obama & his people illegally spied on Americans citizens for years, at least as far back as 2010. They used unmasked incidental intel and then , often using media proxies such as CNN, WaPo and the NYT, they targeted domestic rivals, including politicians, journalists , their families and if reports are to be believed, hundreds – if not thousands – more.
Obama and his people encouraged dissemination and sharing of information within their circle. They targeted several American GOP presidential candidates and then ramped it up when Trump won the nomination, even going so far as to use the phony Steele dossier to gains FISA warrant.
They arrogantly assumed Clinton’s victory was assured and also colluded with her campaign team, sharing classified, unmasked intel.
When Trump won, they panicked. Ever since Nov 8 they’ve been doing everything they can to bring him down to prevent the truth emerging.
The leaks you are seeing now originate from Obama’s people in the present administration and reflect the culture he created.
There are multiple felonies, including sedition and perjury. The Intercept should be extremely careful participating in what’s going on, as the payback will.be massive.
You’re weird….Trumpism attracts those types.
The creepy obsession over Obama is borderline paycho, Its like Obama damaged their fragile psyche so badly that they can’t function .
Trump is the one who has his National Security Officer pleading the 5th and begging for immuniry.
Trump is the foolish buffoon who fired Comey in the middle of an investigation after Comey refused to pledge hostility and drop the investigation.
Trump is a disaster he only won the election by preying on the fears and insecurities of Caucasins, Roger Stones documentary talks about how Team Trump manipulated Caucasin rage and resentment to get votes.
I am surely not a Trump supporter, but I find it extraordinary for these transcripts to be leaked to the press. Maybe the next time a Democrat is in office when this happens.
The press should be prosecuted for publishing the transcripts.
I just looked at the Rappler’s website. There is no mention of this account. How is that possible? You might want to teach them to synchronize since some people actually like to verify, given this day and age of faux information. Or, not sure who is in alpha, make sure you are not just being an obama-cultist or a sorosian. I resent wasting my time reading what seems to be double think.
Left over Obama scum in the FBI, NSA etc must be searched out and destroyed. This is treason at its worst.
Search and destroy must also include those who conspire and publish
Cleaning up the messes of the previous administration will require lots of stroking and diplomacy.
ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY!
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
What is “white”?
Albino? Latino? Vitiligo?
What is a “white” country? America is a “brown” country were the indigenous people have color.
Oh wow. Just wow
Numb. Nuts
What a matter Johnie? The POTUS needs to talk with all world leaders. Grab you panties and enjoy the ride.
Trump is showing wisdom here. Obuma ruined the relationship with their duly elected President by attacking him. We need the base of operations and to have the relationship maintained. This is just another case of having to repair the damage done by previous failed policy.
These authors should be in Leavenworth
This is not a White House leak, it comes from Manila. And there is nothing negative in it.
Yeah, it is really lousy that someone in Manila leaked this (CIA contact/liaison is possible, for what it is worth), but the call is pure Trump and pure success. Trump praises the man and secures his support for improved diplomatic relations with China . Only hyper-partisans would argue otherwise.
If this is genuine, how is this leak not treason?
Trump is showing wisdom here. Obuma ruined the relationship with their duly elected President by attacking him. We need the base of operations and to have the relationship maintained. We do not need to alienate them. This is just another case of having to repair the damage done by previous failed policy.
This is what I expect from someone trying to have a diplomatic relationship. It seems like Trump would have classified info on how to approach this personality.
These leaks are just political and obviously coming from the corrupt establishment. It needs to be stopped.
More completely fake garbage spewing from the unhinged and out of touch with reality left. Just imagine if these kinds of false attacks had been done on Homobama. There would have been executions in the streets.
I read the entire text. It sounds like a great call. Both presidents, like the rest of the world are wary of Kim Jong-un, as is the rest of the world.
Like Rodrigo says, nuclear weapons in the hands of a madman, speaking of North Korea.
Trump is also congratulating Rodrigo on his handling of the drug issue.
I have lived in the Southbronx, when the drug addicts made life miserable for everyone, they were an infestation that contaminated everything they touched. Including members of my own family. So, while I don’t condone Rodrigo’s actions, killing off the drug dealers, addicts without trial, I am agree with President Trump. Rodrigo is doing a good job. There comes a time, when all the rehab, prison time, drug programs in the world cannot really fix the problem it is too big. All that $$$ spent on drug dealers/addicts can be spent on food stamps, medicaid, better schools. I don’t see anything wrong with the call.
Really? Dumb doris the same can be said of any group. Why not just skin all repubtards for being stupid we are just spending too much money trying to educate them. See? Or better they take too many drugs….all of you, mostly old ass racists, are on all kinds of drugs that young healthy Americans pay for. Medicaid? They are cutting it. Food stamps, they are cutting it. Better schools? Lol with Amway queen, I think not. Fuck it, just kill whatever gets in the way right! Why don’t you bitches come on over then got something for you :)
the intercept and its people along with the leaker should face PRISON time for TREASON.
And we know this is true, how?
Already spinning it. Look at how these clowns (JS, AE, RG) headline it – A Call With A Killer. Drugs are a huge problem in his country just like ours. Did these ass clowns bother to write the same types of headlines for BO? This is the type of stuff the President should be doing and instead we get this passive aggressive crap.
That’s pretty much treason….either tapping the president or turning over confidential info. Find them and dispatch them!
Spot on.
I agree 100%. Any American who leaks information about the president in such a baligerent fashion is a traitor and enemy of the state. This is a bigger threat than Snowden or so-called Russian hackers.
You do realize that this was leaked by the PHILIPPINE government. Department of Foreign Affairs Kagawaran Ng Ugnayang Panlabas.
I totally agree. Lets say the police have a warrant for your neighbor. They accidentally bust your door down. They find automatic weapons and cocaine. They cant do anything to you. That evidence was illegally obtained and will be thrown out of court. I think harsher penalties should apply here.
Liberals do not understand how Trump works.. Hes a friendly guy, and makes friends with other people. He than talks business from a personal level. Very smart.
Yes because the repubtard elects are such good businessmen that they cannot do one job their whole life, except declare tons of bankruptcies…trump lost all of his family money on numerous failure, bush was the one pos that couldn’t find oil in all of Texas lol. Regan? An actor, bad one at that. All losers, but wait they can still make a good pres! Lmao
I am sure the media will spin this into a negative also, it’s what they do. Just so sick of hearing about leaks,I wish ‘they’ would just let the guy alone to do his job. Better still, stop obstructing and start helping out the American public interest at heart, instead of their special interests/lobbyists/own pocketbooks.
if im not mistaken Duterte has a 90 %support of the filipino people so what is the big deal
I am still wondering when the gloves are going to come off. The situation with all these leaks has to be resolved, and quickly.
When a person takes a govt job that involves a security clearance, they sign off on a variety of declarations. Including the fact that they understand that they can be subjected to a polygraph for almost any reason.
It is long past time for this to be done to every person who had access to the leaked items. For example, there will be a relative handful of people in and out of the WH who have access to this transcript. Polygraph ALL of them, from Pence on down to the file clerk.
Find them, prosecute them and put them in jail.
You do realize that this was leaked by the PHILIPPINE government. Department of Foreign Affairs Kagawaran Ng Ugnayang Panlabas.
Yeah right. The Intercept showed such good judgment publishing this – obviously with NO agenda – we should never doubt their stated sources.
The transcript is from the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (see paragraph 2 above). It was not leaked from the White House.
And we know that why? Because the spinmasters at The Intercept tell us so? We call B.S.
Start with the authors of this “article”
If Hillary would have become president, the leaks would have stopped quickly as the leaker would have committed suicide by shooting themselves in the back of their own head…twice.
#SethRich
Likely stolen from government wiretaps, put in place by Obama nonetheless.
This leader should be executed! Bugging the Pots phone calls, what is more treasonous than that?
Seems like a great call. What do libtards expect President Trump to say? “Hey President Deturte, you suck. Now I need you to do something for me…Call China.” That would be a losing strategy. What’s more important. Changing the ways of the Philippines or stopping North Korea from having nukes. The left has become idiotic.
Trying to reason with these shitlibs is, sadly, pointless. They have staked themselves out so far with their anti-Trumpism, they are incapable of objectively regarding any action or word by him.
This leaker needs to be found and put in jail for a very long time.
The transcript is from the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (see paragraph 2 above).
Did you even read the article?
The transcript is from the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (see paragraph 2 above). it was not leaked from the White House.
This leaking has got to stop. Stuff like this tips the US hand when situations like NK come up.
Trump handled it beautifully.
Apart from the leaks, it obviously seems like a good call. The POTUS put a nervous Duterte’s mind at ease about the maniac Kim. It will be interesting to see how the media spins this into a negative, as I have no doubt they will.
Anything can be made up, like these so-called transcripts.
Yeah, the only negative here is the partisan Democrats in media being accessories to espionage. Could it be any more clear how much they hate and want to damage this country?
I AGREE WITH YOU 100%, I JUST FINISHED READING THE TRANSCRIPTS. THIS WAS A GOOD CALL, IM SORRY TO BE SO AGAINST THE PUBLISHING OF SO MANY LEAKS. THIS WAS A GOOD MOVE, BUT THE PRESS WILL NOT LIKE THIS BECAUSE OF DUTERTE’S IMAGE HERE IN AMERICA. I HOPE ALL GOES WELL IN MARAWAI.
Don’t be sorry about being against leaks. For reasons of national security, the President (regardless if it is Obama or Trump or any other duly-elected POTUS) should be able to freely discuss issues with foreign leaders without fear of having their private conversations leaked. Sadly, there are some powerful and/or entrenched people who hate Trump so much they have decided the normal rules don’t apply. Even though this leak came from Manila and not the US (or so the article claims), we should be vigilant against leakers. Those caught leaking should be discovered, charged to the fullest extent, and taken to trial.
now, how did a private call get leaked? More fake news? That’s what I’m thinking…….
Did you even read the article?
The transcript is from the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (see paragraph 2 above). it was not leaked from the White House.
duarte has a problem with druggies, so what? i don’t hear you bitching about singapore and they have executed them for years.
here you go dickhole, a list of countries that are fed up with this crap – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_drug_trafficking
Regardless, you haven’t a clue about what’s going on in the Phils.
My wife, her family and everybody we know are damn happy that du30 is taking out the crap.
Our home is in Bislig. NPA and Abbu Sayuf running amok…making and selling drugs.
Love the war on drugs! Wipe then out! Cheers