President Trump acknowledged today that he did not raise reports of Russian bounties on American troops during his phone call last week with President Vladimir Putin, suggesting U.S. intelligence on the matter was “fake news”
President Donald Trump acknowledged Tuesday that he did not raise reports of Russian bounties on American troops during his phone call last week with President Vladimir Putin, suggesting U.S. intelligence on the matter was “fake news.”
Top administration officials have been inconsistent in their explanations of the extent to which Trump was briefed on the bounties, but POLITICOearlier this month that the White House told congressional lawmakers the relevant intelligence was included in the president’s daily written brief in late February.
Trump also “reiterated his hope of avoiding an expensive three-way arms race between China, Russia, and the United States and looked forward to progress on upcoming arms control negotiations in Vienna,” the White House said. Both White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the president have refused to comment in recent days on whether the bounties came up in the latest conversation between Trump and Putin.reporters she was not on the call and that the bounty intelligence “is unverified still to this day,” claiming there are “dissenting opinions within the intel community.”
“Well, we supplied weapons when they were fighting Russia, too. You know, when they were fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan,” Trump said.
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