Sen Duckworth: The President's excuse of "I didn't know" is basically a confession of incompetence
TAMMY DUCKWORTH: But there are two possible scenarios before us. Both are damning for the man who is supposed to be in charge. The first is that Trump was never actually looped in. In this case, ignorance isn't exculpatory. I didn't know that our adversary was helping kill American troops because no one told me is not an excuse for the commander in chief of the greatest military on Earth. It is, in fact, a confession of incompetence.
If he was truly never told, then that means that his own staff either believes he's so compromised by Russia or they consider him so counterproductive to the running of the country that they thought it necessary to hide critical information about our national security from him.
And if it is true that those who knew of this threat of American lives failed to tell the president, then we should expect a president with such an affinity for firing senior officials to have no qualms about acting swiftly to remove the cabinet-level officials who failed to share this critical information with him.
The second, far more likely option, is that they're covering for him, that Trump knew, that of course Trump knew, yet he still did not act, that this America-first president went right on placing Russian interests ahead of American lives, kept on acting as Putin's lackey trying to score Russia an invite back into what would be the G8 even as he learned that they were working with terrorists to target our troops.
Not once-- not once in the past 72 hours has he found the time to express outrage that American servicemen and women are dead.
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