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Watch the Look on Trump’s Face When He Snaps at Female Reporter, ‘That’s None of Your Business!’

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Donald Trump spoke with reporters on his way to Marine One on Wednesday, taking several questions on a wide range of topics and often giving short, emphatic answers, as has become habit. When he was asked about his conversations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, his response was sound bite gold.

In the video clip below, it’s hard to hear the question. But the reporter, CNN’s Sarah Westwood, subsequently tweeted out what she’d asked, which was whether Trump will ask Putin “not to meddle in the 2020 election during their meeting.”

Trump’s answer is easy to hear. “I’ll have a very good conversation with him. What I say to him is none of your business.”

To be clear, that was the President telling the press, and the people, that what it is he discusses with Russia, and about Russian interference in our elections, is nobody’s business.

But his claim that Westwood’s question wasn’t her business was as absurd as it was revealing. When Trump speaks to a foreign leader, he is speaking on behalf of the American people — that makes it every American’s business. And as a White House reporter, it’s literally Westwood’s job to find out what Trump says in situations like this, whether he wants her to know or not.

The fact that Trump has been particularly secretive about his conversations with Putin has made their relationship, and his plans for American relations with Russia, even more suspicious. And Trump’s position toward foreign leaders’ potential election interference has become of even greater importance recently when the president suggested he would welcome opposition research on his political opponents from other countries’ governments, even though this could violate the law.

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