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From the article:
If the Russian bounty on US troops was fake news as the President claimed on Twitter, why did the military take steps to try to protect US forces in Afghanistan?
To read more:
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/06/28/trump-russia-bounty-troops-afganistan.html
Trump has lied over 20,000 times, and the lies are collapsing under the weight of reality. Except, of course, for the 37% of Trump true believers.
sheshe2
(83,846 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Oh yeah, he did order the withdrawl of 9,500 American troops from Germany afterwards to help PutIn weaken NATO.
crickets
(25,982 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,727 posts)crickets
(25,982 posts)Of course they won't say anything. It's kinda in the job description that they keep their mouths shut. I'm just champing at the bit for hearings already, and who knows how long it will take to get that cranked up and going...
LiberalArkie
(15,727 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)It appears with his hopes of fooling enough dummies into casting ballots for another unqualified anit-American Republican dwindle, tRump is on course for his.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)They literally believe Russia, the terrorists, and the liar over and above US intelligence community.
I cruised by an RW aggregator late yesterday and there wasn't hardly a peep about the story then in any of the ones aggregated on the front page. Quite stunning, really. It has taken them 24 hours to get a response together and it is falling apart, as you say.
Obviously, the Russians are more honest.
10 posted on 6/28/2020 by PAR35
mwb970
(11,364 posts)He is a Russian agent working directly for Putin to attack America from within. Are we going to let him get away with this like everything else? What is wrong with us?
wnylib
(21,562 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)and testimony NOW.
keithbvadu2
(36,869 posts)When was Esper briefed? Speak up, SecDef!
Tell us when you started caring about it.
Some articles go back to Jan 2020 that the bounty was known.
Others mention before that.