I think that there were plenty of high level consultations, but the only ones between anyone of importance and trump would have centered around telling our immanently manipulable president whatever he wanted to hear that would strengthen their own position.
If anyone told him, for example, that there might be political benefit - they knew they were lying when they said it, and they knew the president would believe them.
If anyone told him, for example, that there might be political benefit - they knew they were lying when they said it, and they knew the president would believe them.
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