So if Trump hadn't been briefed about the bounty on our soldiers

[dansolo]

Why hasn't anybody submitted their resignation over this? If Trump and Pence really weren't briefed, then someone withheld the information. That person should have resigned, been fired, and/or arrested.

[Botany]

1. From a GOP person who worked for Bush 41, McCain, & Kasich

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[Baitball Blogger]

8. He's a traitor. Plain and simple.

We have known from the beginning that he was in cahoots with Putin. From the beginning.

[Botany]

11. Putin has been working to turn Trump into a Russian asset since the 1990s

And it was the Russians who convinced Trump to Run for President during his 2013
visit to Russia .... think pee pee tapes ... because after he came back to America
he started working on a Presidential campaign.

[OnDoutside]

2. To be fair, it's hard to hear that stuff when your head is far up Putin's ass.

#NotPersonalExperience

[Vinca]

3. That's bullshit. They know it, we know it, everyone knows it.

Maybe Trump had his ears covered by Putin's cheeks with his nose stuck so far up his behind, but it will come out that they were briefed in person.

[RAB910]

4. The lie that the President wasn't briefed goes beyond untrue, it insults our intelligence

[agingdem]

14. the Sergeant Schultz Defense

"I know nussink"....

[Joinfortmill]

5. As Mayor Pete said, "He knew".

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. Yes, and along those same HYPOTHETICAL lines...

Whoever instilled a culture inside the White House that caused intelligence officials and/or aids at every level to be hesitant to bring negative information about Putin to the President's attention should also be ousted. I believe that would be Donald Trump.

Meanwhile now Trump can't say that he doesn't know. So, does the Commander in Chief still want Russia to join an expanded G8?

[sop]

7. Trump can either acknowledge he knew, or admit he was so totally incompetent and disinterested

he couldn't be bothered to know. Not sure which one is worse.

[Botany]

9. +1

2 choices:

1) Trump knew about Russia/Putin paying a bounty on killing Americans and that is treason.

2) Trump did not know about Russia/Putin paying a bounty on killing Americans and that shows he and his
White House & Intel staff are incompetent.

It also very important to notice that Trump and the White House have not denied that Russia has been
paying to have Americans killed.

[gab13by13]

19. NY Times is reporting today,

that the information was in Trump's PDB. So the information was given to Trump at least in writing. If he didn't read his PDB that is dereliction of duty. Whoever did the PDB should have made it a point to verbally report this info also.

[Botany]

21. If this was a just world then every U.S. Senator should be calling for his removal

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From a GOP person who worked for Bush 41, McCain, & Kasich

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[struggle4progress]

10. Maybe Donny Two Scoops told everybody to stop briefing him

Or maybe he just jabbers so long and senselessly during the briefings that nobody actually gets a chance to tell him anything

Maybe he's surrounded himself with incompetent sycophants who don't even try to brief him on anything

Or maybe he just never listens to anything anybody else says

There are many possibilities. Many. Many many.

The Intelligence Officer is here with the daily briefing, sir! Well, send him to MacDonald's to get me a hamberder

[uponit7771]

12. +1

[world wide wally]

24. Or maybe he's lying

[jcgoldie]

25. Well we know for a fact he won't read even a paragraph of text if the subject is not himself

It has been leaked several times that they made those briefings shorter and shorter hoping to hold his attention and he still just doesn't give enough fucks to read it. He's the kid who was too damn lazy to even read the cliffs notes for his book report.

[D_Master81]

13. It was probably

This whole story was probably in the daily briefings on page 2 after the pictures and graphs section. Hence he didn’t see it.

[MoonRiver]

15. And, why isn't he doing something NOW???

[ashredux]

16. Trump WAS briefed

[ashredux]

17. The law....

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

[OrlandoDem2]

18. And yet he advocated for Russia's admission to the G7.

[Johnny2X2X]

20. He was told!

People are conceding his denial already. Trump was told and he knew, period.

[Scarsdale]

22. I wonder how many

politicians in the group who celebrated last July 4th. in Moscow, knew of this? The gop is FULL of traitors, just enriching themselves at taxpayer expense. How much did that trip to Moscow cost, and why did they go? All grinning like a group of hyenas. Disgusting. When will voters wake up, and admit the gop are not capable of running this country unless it is into the ground?

[AllyCat]

23. Does withdrawing troops from Germany benefit anyone except Russia?

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

26. Maybe trump should use ronald reagan's excuse for Iran-Contra ...

When Reagan was asked why he didn't stop the secret weapons sales to Iran, he said:

"I knew, but I didn't know that I knew."

[Skittles]

27. of course he was briefed

but he has to deny it or else he has to answer questions about his bromance with Putin