How about we just use our common sense and our own personal life experience

[Atticus]

in considering whether Trump was briefed months ago about Russia paying bounty money for the killing of US soldiers?

IF---IF---IF Trump was not told about this shocking intelligence (a ridiculous assumption, I know, but play along, okay?), how would any sane innocent POTUS react?

With indignation! With "Get the heads of all intelligence agencies into the Oval Office NOW! Whoever is responsible for withholding this information from me is guilty of criminal malfeasance or worse and WILL be held accountable! And, the following course of action with regard to Russia will be undertaken immediately as our response to this outrage:------------"

Isn't something along those lines what we would expect from a "legitimate" POTUS?

But, what did we hear from the traitor? "Nobody told me nothin' and Vlad denies it strongly, so-----"

How much of this traitorous bullshit are we expected to swallow?

[Phoenix61]

1. Exactly. I would think the N.Y. Times would have

contacted someone in the WH for a comment on the story before they ran it. In a sane world, the WH begs for time and heads start rolling when the call ends.

[2naSalit]

2. According to our enemy in the WH...

We're supposed to swallow all of it.