AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019

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Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the intelligence.

https://apnews.com/425e43fa0ffdd6e126c5171653ec47d1

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1. Trump has thoroughly screwed himself

and continues to lie about it. If this country has its head on straight, Trump would be out of office by Wednesday.

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3. There seems to be no other option, but this is a crooked, corrupt...

administration backed by crooked, corrupt repug party who don't have the backbone to join with Dems to demand his resignation.

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2. Lawrence reporting that Bolton briefed Trump on this in March 2019. n/t