President Trump says he didn’t discuss intelligence about purported Russian bounties on US troops in Afghanistan with President Putin when they spoke by phone last week.
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troops in Afghanistan“That was a phone call to discuss other things, and frankly, that’s an issue that many people said was fake news,” Trump said in an interview with Axios.Asked who had said that the intelligence was fake news, Trump said, “I think a lot of people” including people from the Bush administration, some of whom he said are “not any friends of mine.”Sign Up
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