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2020-06-30 Afghanistan
Another Deep State hoax blown out of the water: Trump never briefed about Russian bounties ‐Herridge
[American Thinker] The other day, the New York Times was subtly and not so subtly promoting the claim that President Trump was standing callously by and coddling Russia's Vladimir Putin even as Putin was busily offering the Taliban bounties for the bodies of dead U.S. servicemen. It was the old "Trump is a Russian agent" canard whipped out in a new form.
The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House's National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said. Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said.

Heartless bastard, allowing Russia to pick off our men while he kaffeeklatsched with Putin and invited him to the G-7. Anything for his Russian master.

President Trump denied it. His acting director of National Intelligence at the time, Richard Grenell, denied it vehemently. Grenell's disavowal of the leak of such "partial intelligence" was something I noted here. And for what it's worth, even the Russians denied it.

But the Times pressed on with the claim and even did some additional reporting to claim that it had proof. The Guardian helped the Times along with a follow-up story beginning with "Outrage Mounts about..."

Fortunately, there was CBS's Catherine Herridge, who batted back at the press at its own game — and found some pretty exculpatory backing for the Trump administration's statements:
Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-30 00:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 Trump's 'delusional' conversations with world leaders revealed in astonishing leak to Watergate's Bernstein: He and Putin are like 'two guys in a steam bath,' he trashes Obama AND Bush as 'don't know BS,' and called Merkel 'stupid' and Theresa May 'weak'
Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-30 10:03||   2020-06-30 10:03|| Front Page Top

#2 #1 That should be unpopular with Trump's voters. Very unpopular! 🤣
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-30 10:06||   2020-06-30 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Mother of Marine, 25, who was killed in Afghanistan urges investigation into intelligence claim that Russians paid Taliban to kill American soldiers including her son
Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-30 10:25||   2020-06-30 10:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Intelligence that Russia was paying the Taliban to kill U.S. troops 'WAS in Donald Trump's daily brief,' official claims - as White House insist spies don't agree on whether it's true
Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-30 10:26||   2020-06-30 10:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Republican congressman says he was told Russia was offering bounties to the Taliban to kill U.S. troops when he served in Afghanistan - meaning scandal could go back to 2014
Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-30 10:27||   2020-06-30 10:27|| Front Page Top

#6 As of this morning, this is still being reported as fact.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-06-30 10:58||   2020-06-30 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 The media, or DNC propaganda ministry doesn’t care about facts that aren’t approved.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-06-30 11:21||   2020-06-30 11:21|| Front Page Top

#8 See also: Media Are Playing Games Yet Again With Anonymous Russia Leaks

Happened to catch a bit of Chuck Schumer on CBS this morning with his phony sanctimony on this subject. It was seriously disgusting.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-06-30 13:09||   2020-06-30 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 I'll give 'em credit, though. They sure know how to coordinate their presentation of these hoaxes. They keep all their singers on the same page all the time.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-06-30 13:11||   2020-06-30 13:11|| Front Page Top

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