alt Hacker News> If Putin wants to lie to you about something, do you expect him to speak the truth in Russian and then have his translator tell you something else?
Why not? The only other person in the room doesn't speak Russian.
> If Putin wants to lie to you about something, do you expect him to speak the truth in Russian and then have his translator tell you something else?
Why not? The only other person in the room doesn't speak Russian.
You expect Putin of the KGB to presume the person he's speaking to doesn't have a recording device or the ability to remember the words he used and have them translated by someone else later? And if he did think that, wouldn't that be an advantage to the US of doing it that way, to capitalize on the chance he lets his guard down? And if he did let his guard down and Trump failed to capitalize on it, what disadvantage would the US suffer from that compared with the situation where he knows there is a US translator in the room and doesn't say it to begin with?