Trump Again Defends Russia, Calling Evidence of “Bounties” on U.S. Troops a “Hoax”
Trump “insists he never saw the intelligence, though it was part of the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) just days before a peace deal was signed with the Taliban in February,” say David Sanger and Eric Schmitt, in a New York Times analysis.
(That warning was not delivered vocally to the president; it was in writing, in the PDB — which his former national security adviser, John Bolton, says Trump rarely reads.)
Some Trump officials appear to be setting the stage for a campaign of silence on the cash-for-killing episode — by blaming leaks to the news media for the whole thing.
“Sadly, because of the leak, it may now become impossible ever to get to the bottom of this, to get to the truth of the matter, and that’s one of the very sad things,” national security adviser Robert O’Brien said in an interview on Fox News.
“We were working very hard on this matter,” O’Brien insisted. “It might be impossible to get to the bottom of it because someone decided to leak to hurt the president rather than uphold their obligations to the American people.”
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