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Trump Raved and Stormed Over Missed Call From Vladimir Putin, Ex-Downing Street Aide Says

© Sputnik / Mikhael Klimentyev / Go to the mediabankNovember 11, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, right, are seen here ahead of the first working meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders
November 11, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, right, are seen here ahead of the first working meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders - Sputnik International
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The adviser dubbed the experience “rather extraordinary”, claiming POTUS insisted that the Russian president should be put through without delay the moment he wants to talk to his American counterpart.

Donald Trump appears to have flown off the handle when addressing his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn over a missed phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former No 10 official has shared.

It appears there were high-profile witnesses of the unexpected rant – former British Prime Minister Theresa May, for instance, was present at “a fairly extraordinary” lunch during which POTUS literally yelled at Flynn, ex-chief of staff Nick Timothy recalled, speaking on the What Were They Thinking? podcast.

“Somebody just mentioned in passing that Vladimir Putin had asked for a call with him, and right in front [of] us he absolutely shouted down Mike Flynn”, he said, explaining that the dinner was formal – “with butlers and fancy crockery”.

November 11, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, right, are seen here ahead of the first working meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders - Sputnik International
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“If Putin wants a call with me you just put him through”, Timothy recalled the enraged president shouting at Flynn down the table, “right in front” of a bewildered May.

Timothy, chief of staff between 2016 and 2017, went on to discuss the acute controversy over Huawei, which May had allowed in to Britain to set up local 5G projects, and recent Tory-government attitudes to both the US and China, as well as the duo’s trade and national security spat.

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