THAT is NOT the way things are supposed to be….
A Russian military unit offering money for the lives of American troops…
It COULD be looked as act of war with ANY other American President….
But of course NOT with Donald Trump who it seems has something being held over his head by the Russian President Putin…
This has been known for a while in American intelligence circles and probably by to leadership of Congress…
A response to this from any other American President would be called for…
But one can expect none from Trump…
Which is why one might guess this has leaked out to the media…..
Western intelligence officials say the unit, which has operated for more than a decade, has been charged by the Kremlin with carrying out a campaign to destabilize the West through subversion, sabotage and assassination. In addition to the 2018 poisoning, the unit was behind an attempted coup in Montenegro in 2016 and the poisoning of an arms manufacturer in Bulgaria a year earlier.
American intelligence officials say the G.R.U. was at the center of Moscow’s covert efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. In the months before that election, American officials say, two G.R.U. cyberunits, known as 26165 and 74455, hacked into Democratic Party servers and then used WikiLeaks to publish embarrassing internal communications.
In part because those efforts were aimed at helping tilt the election in Mr. Trump’s favor, his handling of issues related to Russia and Mr. Putin has come under particular scrutiny. The special counsel investigation found that the Trump campaign welcomed Russia’s intervention and expected to benefit from it, but found insufficient evidence to establish that his associates had engaged in any criminal conspiracy with Moscow….
Shelby Edwards
@STEWest
I’m an Afghanistan vet. Came home as a passenger on a MedEvac. Spent that flight sitting feet from my critically injured brethren.
He let the Russians put a bounty on our heads.
If you’re in the GOP, if you voted for this traitor, you never get to thank me for my service again
The Lincoln Project released a tough new ad:
“In the last year, flag-draped coffins have returned from Afghanistan. Now we know Vladimir Putin pays a bounty for the murder of American soldiers.”
“Donald Trump knows too — and does nothing. Putin pays the Taliban cash to slaughter our men and women in uniform and Trump is silent.”
Earlier for members: Trump Apparently Knew Russia Was Killing Americans
Politicalwire…
Hmmmm?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Sunday that she’s unclear as to what “the Russians have on” President Trump, but added that it must have swayed his administration not to take action after U.S. intelligence learned that Moscow spies offered bounties to Afghan militants to kill U.S. troops.
Pelosi said during an interview on ABC’s “This Week” that throughout Trump’s presidency he has ignored allegations against misdeeds committed by Russia, but that the new reports on bounties “is as bad as it gets.”
“This is as bad as it gets, and yet the president will not confront the Russians on this score, denies being briefed,” Pelosi said. “I don’t know what the Russians have on the president, politically, personally, financially, or whatever it is, but he wants to ignore, he wants to bring them back to the G-8 despite the annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine.”….
Fox News…
When will Democrats apologize to Mitt Romney about 2012?
The story was leaked because we ARE moving back into pre-2016 territory …
We do NOT know what Putin has on Trump , but I agree with Pelosi …
There IS something Putin has on Trump…
I’d guess the spy master know what it is…
This seems to me about trying to hurt Putin and the Russian political efforts….
Which one would have to believe WILL go into a full court press in the next month or two to help salvage Trump’s second term effort….
Surely Putin does NOT want Joe Biden and the old Obama people , who will help Biden’s foreign policy, across the table from him…
This is also a push back I suppose against Trump, who I don’t care what lies he and Pence say ?…HADS to have been briefed on this …
I know Jack’s a lawyer and he want’s concret profs?
But I’d bet like I said before?
The top US law makers knew this before also….
I mean even the European Intel people have confirmed this, there troops ARE in the field with our troops…
The word ‘treason’; has been thrown around by Trump in the past..
It is NOW being used on tweeter in the same sentences as his name is….
Breaking…..
More leaks from the intel community against Trump….
These show a President divulging state secrets and security info …
Post later on the CNN story…
It’s just gonna get worst…
Add THIS to the GOPer’s blind following their knucklehead leader’s stupidity ….
Republicans Have Been Skipping Intel Briefings
“Democrats see a boycott motivated by partisan politics. Republicans argue they have legitimate security concerns,” Politico reports.
“Either way, GOP members of the House Intelligence Committee have skipped all but one of the panel’s proceedings, public and private, since before Congress went into its coronavirus-lockdown in early March. And that impasse shows no signs of ending, even as the panel takes up issues like China, Covid-19 and the annual intelligence policy bill.”
Politicalwire
Bolton gets his two cents in against Trump’s lying with ‘I wasn’t briefed lie on the bounty thing’…
Bolton Briefed Trump on Russian Bounties In 2019
“Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported,” the AP reports.
“The assessment was included in at least one of President Trump’s written daily intelligence briefings at the time, according to the officials. Then-national security adviser John Bolton also told colleagues he briefed Trump on the intelligence assessment in March 2019.”
“The revelations cast new doubt on the White House’s efforts to distance Trump from the Russian intelligence assessments.”
The New York Times confirms Trump also received a written briefing on the bounties in late February.