Trump's Russia Bounty Story Falls Apart As Military Tried To Protect Troops

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

As more outlets have confirmed the initial report that the Russians placed a bounty on the heads of US troops in Afghanistan, Trump’s claims of fake news are collapsing. The White House tried to claim that Trump wasn’t briefed, but the Office of the Director of National Intelligence won’t say whether or not Trump was given a written briefing that he ignored.

If the Russian bounty on US troops was “fake news” as the President claimed on Twitter, why did the military take steps to try to protect US forces in Afghanistan?

To read more:

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/06/28/trump-russia-bounty-troops-afganistan.html

Trump has lied over 20,000 times, and the lies are collapsing under the weight of reality. Except, of course, for the 37% of Trump true believers.

[sheshe2]

1. K&R

[Stuart G]

2. K and R

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Trump WAS briefed and did NOTHING.....

Oh yeah, he did order the withdrawl of 9,500 American troops from Germany afterwards to help PutIn weaken NATO.

[crickets]

4. Why is DNI refusing to answer? K&R for visibility.

[LiberalArkie]

6. DNI never says anything. Usually won't admit that DNI even exists

[crickets]

8. True. It was a bit of a rhetorical question, and not a very good one.

Of course they won't say anything. It's kinda in the job description that they keep their mouths shut. I'm just champing at the bit for hearings already, and who knows how long it will take to get that cranked up and going...

[LiberalArkie]

9. Yea me also. Kind of would have liked to have known what GW Bush knew in his years.

[ffr]

5. All grifters have their day of reckoning.

It appears with his hopes of fooling enough dummies into casting ballots for another unqualified anit-American Republican dwindle, tRump is on course for his.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Re: 37% base: RW outlet TownHall says NYT falls apart because WH, Russia, and Taliban deny it.

They literally believe Russia, the terrorists, and the liar over and above US intelligence community.

I cruised by an RW aggregator late yesterday and there wasn't hardly a peep about the story then in any of the ones aggregated on the front page. Quite stunning, really. It has taken them 24 hours to get a response together and it is falling apart, as you say.

who are you going to trust - the FSB or the NYT.
Obviously, the Russians are more honest.
10 posted on 6/28/2020 by PAR35

[mwb970]

10. I thought trump was a traitor, but it is much, much worse.

He is a Russian agent working directly for Putin to attack America from within. Are we going to let him get away with this like everything else? What is wrong with us?

[wnylib]

12. Yep. He is.

[NCjack]

11. Look over here! Benghazi -- subpoena Hillary and get more evidence

and testimony NOW.

[keithbvadu2]

13. When was Esper briefed? Speak up, SecDef!

When was Esper briefed? Speak up, SecDef!

Tell us when you started caring about it.

Some articles go back to Jan 2020 that the bounty was known.

Others mention before that.

[bronxiteforever]

14. Kick and recommend.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

15. KnR