Back From Golfing, Trump Denies Knowing About Russian Bounties to Kill U.S. Soldiers

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On Friday night the New York Times reported a blockbuster story: U.S. intelligence has found that Russian military intelligence offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants in Afghanistan to strike coalition forces, including U.S. and British military members.

President Trump has known about the bounties since March and has done nothing to retaliate. The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal have both confirmed the Times’ reporting.

According to the Times, after Trump was briefed months ago about the role that Russia’s military intelligence agency played in initiating attacks on American soldiers, the president was given a “menu of potential options” on how to respond. But the Trump administration has not acted on any to date.

Late Saturday, the White House denied that President Trump or Vice President Mike Pence had been briefed by U.S. intelligence officials regarding the payments made to militants by Russia to kill American troops.

“The United States receives thousands of intelligence reports a day, and they are subject to strict scrutiny… The CIA Director, National Security Advisor, and the Chief of Staff can all confirm that neither the President nor the Vice President were briefed on the alleged Russian bounty intelligence,” White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-denies-knowing-about-russian-bounties-to-kill-soldiers-1021511/

"Reading is hard," Donald Trump

[Nevilledog]

1. Denying they were briefed, if true, is horrifying.

What it means is:

A) trump has ordered that he doesn't want to hear anything involving Russia
B) trump can't be trusted with hearing info about Russia
C) nobody in the trump admin gives a shit about American troops

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Well what are you going to do about it now?

We all know he knew from the start, heck, he probably explicitly gave Putin the OK. But reporters should ask him, “now that you know, what are you going to do?”

[oasis]

10. +1,000,000

[C_U_L8R]

3. Every cheat has a 'tell'

Here, Trump isn't even asking why he wasn't notified... and he's definitely not doing anything about Russia and more importantly, protecting our troops.

We all know he's guilty as fuck. Traitorous bastard.

[California_Republic]

4. Does he know now?

[Nevilledog]

5. That's still up for debate.

[California_Republic]

9. Everyone's tied up in the "when did he know?"

So now he knows right? What are you gonna do dude?

[Nevilledog]

12. He'll call Putin. Say Putin denies it. Trash American Intelligence community.....again.

[Demovictory9]

6. well...say he didn't know, now he does... why didnt he forgo golf to get at bottom of it?

[SoonerPride]

7. Timeline of what to expect

I never knew about it.

Ok so I knew about it but no soldiers were killed that bounties were paid on.

Ok so a few soldiers did die that had bounties paid on their heads but I didn’t know about that.

Ok I knew about it but AMERICA does bad things too.

And at every turn republicans in Congress will scurry past reporters as if the questions asked about this treason were in Swahili.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Understand Lady G

was one of his Golf Pals today. Will be interesting how Lady G spins this story.

BTW,MSNBC white House reporter just did a bothsiderism stand up a few minutes ago saying,well we did the same thing when Russia Occupied Afghanistan.

So friggin tired of these over paid Steno's doing their friggin best to create a out for the Story Target.

[Thrill]

11. Doesn't Biden as former VP still get access

to these intelligence reports?

[Phoenix61]

13. So far all we have is the WH saying he wasn't

briefed and that others will support that statement. Has anyone actually backed up the WH?

[struggle4progress]

14. "Has anybody seen my briefs?"

Size fifty two. Once were blue.
But now with what can I make do?
Has anybody seen my briefs?

[Takket]

15. i'd like someone to ask him if he's going to check in with his advisors........

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. If he didn't know he should have. Where were his

advisors? Probably afraid to mention it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. I don't know nothing about Russians bribing Talibans, and ...

... and I don't know nothing about me bribing my caddies to improve my golf ball's position. What water hazard?

[tinrobot]

18. He knows now. So he'll enact sanctions immediately, right?

Wrong.

That's all we need to know.