Biden Criticizes Trump Over Intelligence on Russian Bounties on U.S. Troops
- SATURDAY JUNE 27, 2020
“While the White House does not routinely comment on alleged intelligence or internal deliberations, the C.I.A. director, national security adviser and the chief of staff can all confirm that neither the president nor the vice president were briefed on the alleged Russian bounty intelligence,” the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said in a statement Saturday afternoon, about 25 hours after the article was posted on The Times’s website.
About six hours later on Saturday night, the director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, issued a statement echoing the White House’s assertion that Mr. Trump had not been briefed on the intelligence finding.
But one American official had told The Times that the intelligence finding that the Russians had offered and paid bounties to Afghan militants and criminals had been briefed at the highest levels of the White House
Biden Criticizes Trump Over Intelligence on Russian Bounties on U.S. Troops
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Given that the White House has had almost 36 hours to deny the story, the only question that remains is how much did the President and Vice President know and when did they know it!
The White House would have us believe that the President and Vice President had been kept "in the dark" since March, but over the past 3 1/2 years this President has denied knowledge of a number of events that has proven to be false - once a Commander-in-Chief starts down that "slippery slope" of short-term expediency, the American public is no longer willing to provide him with the benefit of the doubt!
The most recent example was the dismissal of lead US Attorney Geoffrey Bermon which required the authority of the President - Attorney General Barr stated that he had obtained Trump's permission but when questioned later, the President proceeded to claim that he had no knowledge of this individual who was investigating him and his associates!