NY Times - Russia put a bounty on US Troops in Afghanistan

GOP will not stop it. They are complicit.

You know the judges............ I would not doubt they are not praying for RBG's good health!

Well he and his cronies have it on the tip of their tongues.

Trump hoping for Supreme Court vacancy as way to boost a flagging campaign
By Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated 8:31 AM ET, Tue June 30, 2020

(CNN)As the Supreme Court hands his administration successive defeats at the same time his political standing craters, President Donald Trump has begun to raise both publicly and privately the potential boon another nomination to the panel this year might provide.
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The President has long cast a potential third Supreme Court nomination as rationale for his reelection. But as the court's term ends, Trump has begun musing at how a more immediate vacancy may help improve his weakened political standing in the months before November's election.
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An election-year Supreme Court vacancy would electrify the still-nascent presidential campaign, with Democrats likely insisting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell adhere to the same terms he established in 2016, when he prevented Merrick Garland, then-President Barack Obama's nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia, from being considered, saying whomever was elected should be responsible for filling the opening.

McConnell said in February that, despite his position four years ago, the GOP-led Senate would fill a vacancy this year, arguing the situation is different now because because the Senate and the White House are controlled by the same party
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more at link:
www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/trump-supreme-court-campaign-boost/index.html

He’s the commander in Chief why the fuck was he not briefed? And what the fuck is he doing about it now that he & everyone else knows? Has he condemned Putin? Has he asked for a full investigation?


Nah, he’s ignored it and claimed the NYT is wrong.

How any American can support this is mind boggling. MIND BOGGLING!

So here’s the gist of it:
Our troops who protect us reportedly have bounties on them and the commander in Chief is whining because his loan officer ( Putin ) who brokered the loans from Russian oligarchs so Trump wouldn’t go Bankrupt yet again, is not invited to his party ( G7) ?

Anyone who accepts this is complicit in the treason against our nation & our troops.

He can replace the perjurer - fine by me you know since lying about emails is so so important

She is another nut job in 'bunker boys' collection of oddities.

Lincoln Project has a new one!!

Interesting that the GOP was not told about the money on Monday and DNI Ratcliffe lied to them also!!

The Trump administration on Monday briefed several GOP lawmakers on intelligence suggesting Russia paid Taliban-linked militants to target US troops in Afghanistan, but did not tell the House Republicans that US officials had intercepted electronic data showing large financial transfers from a bank account controlled by Russia's military intelligence agency (the GRU) to a Taliban-linked account, the New York Times reported.

The intercepted data on the financial transfers is corroborated by intelligence gleaned from interrogations of captured Afghan militants and criminals, the Times said, and is among the most significant reported findings regarding the alleged Russian plot so far.

Monday's White House briefing for the GOP lawmakers was primarily conducted by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and national security adviser Robert C. O'Brien.

The briefing included information supporting the conclusion that Russia ran the bounty operation, as well as information that undermined it.
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Two people familiar with the meeting told the Times that the briefing seemed designed to underscore that the intelligence was not "clear cut." It's unclear why the administration did not tell the lawmakers about the financial evidence reportedly intercepted by US officials. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence when contacted by Insider pointed to a statement from Ratcliffe on Monday saying "we are still investigating the alleged intelligence."
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In January 2020, Trump ordered a drone strike that killed a top Iranian general and pushed the US and Iran to the brink of war. The Trump administration said the strike was due to imminent threats on US forces in the Middle East, but hasn't provided specific evidence to back-up this assertion. Along these lines, many in Washington have been up in arms that Trump was reportedly briefed on intelligence pointing to a Russian plot to harm US troops, but did nothing in response. And congressional Democrats have been pushing for a full briefing on the matter the US intelligence community.

"I find it inexplicable in light of these very public allegations that the president hasn't come before the country and assured the American people that he will get to the bottom of whether Russia is putting bounties on American troops and that he will do everything in his power to make sure that we protect American troops," Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on Tuesday.
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more at link:
www.businessinsider.com/us-officials-discovered-russian-payments-taliban-to-kill-us-troops-2020-6

Welcome to the dt/GOP alternate universe!

And the rest of the comments, I missed them earlier!

He WAS briefed Monday!! Possibly Sunday! So he knew today when he tweeted it was a 'hoax' he was lying AGAIN...

He abandoned NYC. He doesn't live there anymore! Too bad!

ohhhh, but you're wrong! he said he DOES live in New York, which is why his lawyers withdrew their objection to a rape case against him. (because their objection was that the lawsuit couldn't be filed against him where it was.) I know I read that headline earlier today, I think.

Ah ok, but he did change his official residence to Florida..  But someone also said he can't legally live on the Mar-A-Lago property full time as a legal resident!