Journalist Peter Bergen in his book “trump and his generals: the price of chaos,” said the advisers to the President of the United States Donald trump is not given to hold a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Bergen, citing sources said that the incident occurred immediately after the arrival of trump power, 27 Jan 2017. Theresa may, who served as head of the British government, he asked, did trump with Putin. The US President replied in the negative, but Michael Flynn said that the call is being organized. Flynn was then adviser to trump the national security, RIA “Novosti”.
According to Flynn, the Russian leader “called a few days ago,” but the us “are unable to put a call in schedule” trump. He said, “are You kidding? Vladimir Putin tried to call me, and you are not connected? What the hell were you thinking?”. Flynn said that many calls, team trump is trying to “manage” them. In response, trump said that Putin is “the only person who can destroy” US.
“And you don’t put the call through?” – said the President of the United States.
He later expressed the outrage of his advisers, “What is this nonsense? How is it possible that Putin is calling me, and you don’t connect? I don’t know what you guys are doing!”.
Bergen is the author of best-selling books and a CNN analyst on national security. He first interviewed Osama bin Laden in 1997.
14 November 2016 Putin had a telephone conversation with trump, in the course of the conversation the Russian head of state congratulated him on his election and said Moscow’s willingness to dialogue.
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