Muriel Vasconcellos May 18, 2017:

No one was nervous before or during the meeting My impression of Trump is that he doesn't get anxious about things. He is so self-confident that nothing punctures his bubble. In his world, things don't go wrong; it's the "fake news" that imagines all the difficulties. For example, he seriously believes that the sun came out during his inaugural address, even though everyone in the audience was using umbrellas and ponchos.
At the meeting in question, it turns out that he revealed top-secret information solely for the purpose of bragging to the Russians about how good his sources are.

Muriel Vasconcellos May 17, 2017:

This was a meeting on May 10 Thanks for the reminder, Robert. You're right. As far as we know, it was cordial. I retract my initial comment.

Robert Forstag (asker) May 17, 2017:

Ambiance of meeting Based on what I've read and heard, the atmosphere of the meeting itself was rather cordial - kind of like old friends (or at least people with like minds) sitting and chatting. Real warmth and cordiality is certainly reflected in the photos taken of the meeting by the Russian photographer (especially if you contrast it with Obama's stiff handshakes and frozen smiles during photo-ops with Putin post-Crimea annexation).

Enough from me on this for now....

12316323 (X) May 17, 2017:

Response to last comment: That's a good point and one I hadn't considered- I just intuitively understood it to mean the a priori circumstances, and didn't consider the possibility that it refers to how the meeting actually went down. I still tend to think the latter, mainly due to the inclusion of "Se celebró al día siguiente del despido de Comey..."

If you want to use "fraught," I think "fraught with peril" or "fraught with risk" are more idiomatic than danger. However, I'm not quite sure that that's what the phrase in Spanish is getting at. At least, it's not clear.

Maybe, The timing and participants of last Wednesday's meeting made it a particularly charged one... (There's probably a better way of phrasing this--I don't like this, but just trying to show how "charged" could be an ideal option.)

Tensions ran/were running high at last Wednesday's meeting...

(Decided to alter my entry)

Robert Forstag (asker) May 17, 2017:

Typo Of course, as Phil has pointed out, "alto voltaje."