Trump struggles as furor grows over reported Russian bounty offer to kill U.S. troops

[yortsed snacilbuper]

President Trump, confronted with a damaging report that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill American and allied troops in Afghanistan, declared Sunday on Twitter that he was never briefed about the finding by U.S. intelligence.

Democrats including Trump’s prospective presidential rival, Joe Biden, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharply criticized Trump’s seeming indifference to the explosive report in Friday’s New York Times. Neither Trump nor other administration officials have specifically denied the report, which has since been confirmed by several other news organizations.

But while avoiding a direct denial of the report’s underlying assertions, the president seemed to suggest the information might not trouble him much even if true.

“There have not been many attacks on us,” he wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-struggles-as-furor-grows-over-reported-russian-bounty-offer-to-kill-u-s-troops/ar-BB164KHJ?ocid=msedgntp

[Phoenix61]

1. So I guess it's cool if I hire a hit man as long

if he misses his target? WTAF!!!!

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Worse Yet...

...if your hitman only took out one or two people, it's still ok.
PINO said only a few attacks. Obviously, one is too many.
But, he's cool with a few!

[Skittles]

6. and Trump still has a bromance with the hitman

[Eyeball_Kid]

8. So... it's okay if Putin wants to pick off

a sergeant or two, or maybe a private, as long as the killing doesn’t get out of hand. Donnie can still praise Putin as a very strong leader. It works out well for everyone, eh?

Was Trumpy complicit? Did he collaborate? Did any US soldiers die at Putin’s direction?

Does the GOP give a flying fuck? Apparently not. Their love for their Golden white Boy knows no bounds.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. It could have bee a targeted assassination, masked under the guise of miscellaneous bounties.

[MontanaMama]

2. Be prepared for a big fat ugly distraction

to take our minds of his treason.

[John Fante]

10. Trump could retweet Hitler speeches to

take our mind off this, and it still wouldn't work.

[Karadeniz]

4. I can't imagine a president who would condone attacks as long as there were not many. What

Would the reaction to Hillary have been if she'd maintained throughout all those Benghazi hearings that a handful of American deaths was nothing for the republicans to get their panties in a over.

[Cha]

5. Of course it "doesn't trouble" trump.. here's a caring person's thoughts..

Link to tweet

[2naSalit]

18. In the picture,

Mike Pants isn't saluting or covering his heart.

[Cha]

19. That's right.. what's his problem?

That's a good descriptive pic in your sig line, 2naSalit.

[2naSalit]

20. Thanks. Stole it from the daily TOONS.

I was using the asterisk from the same artist but then they came up with this, it's perfect.

[tableturner]

7. "There have not been many attacks on us" equals "It's okay, not many of us were killed".

[gratuitous]

17. That was my reading of the remark

I'm so old, I remember when conservatives said they cared about the troops, and that collaborating with Russia against our military was a very, very bad thing.

[Faux pas]

9. "Struggling"

isn't enough, he needs suffer the consequences, experience great anguish and extreme pain. Then I'll be satisfied

[The Polack MSgt]

11. He's used to killing a thousand of us everyday day

He can't get very excited over 31 people in 18 months

[smirkymonkey]

12. He's not quite getting it, is he?

[Nevilledog]

14. Dammit.... Misread that as trump STRANGLED

Was happy for a sec.

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Um, Trump doesn't pay attention to briefings.

There's that.

[mnmoderatedem]

16. all weekend long since the story broke

and still no trump condemnation of Putin.

For paying off mercenaries to kill our troops, who he professes to love so much.

This is valuable material down the campaign stretch.

Biden needs to spotlight this, and make multiple public repudiations of Putin, to demonstrate the stark contrast.