The NYT is reporting Trump knew back in March that Putin offered Taliban militants in Afghanistan a bounty to KILL AMERICAN TROOPS and did nothing about it!
Trump claims he was never briefed about the Russian bounty on our soldiers but when informed about it yesterday his response was to GO GOLFING!
And he had the gall to push for Russia to be re-admitted to the G-7 after they were given the boot for invading and stealing Crimea from Ukraine.
Then he announced we are withdrawing 1/3 of our American forces from Germany as another kiss to Putin. WTF!
This Gutless Bone Spur Coward is a traitor and must be removed from office on November 3.
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For those who want to see the specific reporting, the piece is at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html.
This should not be surprising to anyone paying attention to Mr. Trump or, for that matter, to Mr. Barr’s relentless attempts to shield Mr. Trump and his Russian connections from inconvenient investigations by actual prosecutors who actually care about protecting American interests from Russian intervention.
Since “treason” requires an explicit Declaration of War, it is hyperbole to call Mr. Trump a “traitor” in any legal sense.
Nevertheless, he is clearly working to advance the interests of a hostile nation — this time at the explicit expense of American lives.
The question, as it has been since 2016, is what — if anything — we are going to do about it. This requires more than tut-tutting, self-rightous and empty expressions of anger and dismay, and powerless podium-pounding.
This continues to be a test of the ability of our system of government to protect America from real, grave, explicit, and immediate threats to our lives and to our very existence.
Our system of government is, so far, miserably failing that test. I wonder how much American blood is required to change that depressing reality.
It requires that we be at war. It is not fully clear that a declaration is required.
(We are at war in Afghanistan.)
He’s at least been encouraging hostile action from the moment he said, “Russia, if you’re listening…”
“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.” Shelby Edwards
“His entire presidency is a gift to Putin, but this is beyond the pale. It’s betrayal of the most sacred duty we bear as a nation to protect and equip our troops when we send them into harm’s way. It’s a betrayal of every single American family with a loved one serving in Afghanistan or anywhere overseas.” Joe Biden
It has been obvious for years that Donald Trump is a Russian asset. I am quite certain that sooner or later we will know that this was disclosed to Barack Obama in 2016 (or before). I’m also quite certain that the institutional knowledge of this, at least within the NSA and CIA, is what Mr. Barr and Mr. Trump strive to eradicate.
The question remains whether or not anything will be done about it beyond wailing and gnashing of teeth.
We the people will consign this murderous monster into the ash heap of history on November 3.
Is it possible that the American sponsored attempted kidnapping of Maduro in Venezuela was retaliation for this? The time frame seems to work.
I don’t know if that is true, but I don’t know that any part of this story is true. Does anybody here really credit anything that is leaked out of Pompeo’s State department or Haspell’s CIA?
The crocodile tears about soldiers’ well being is stomach turning. A few months ago, a lot of these same people were clamoring for US troops to be put in harm’s way in Northern Iraq.
According to Fox News…this is all the fault of an ILLEGAL leak from an anti-Trump Deep State traitor. So there!
How much is the life of an American hero warrior worth? $100,000 bounty from Putin’s Evil Empire to Afghan warlords. Despicable.
Tough new sanctions — economic, diplomatic and political — should be imposed by Congress on these dirty bastards, NOW!
Bette Midler wins the tweet of the day : “Trump finally wore a mask the other day & said he felt like the Lone Ranger. But the Lone Ranger’s mask had two eye holes in it, while Trump’s mask had only one asshole in it.”
“The president himself is a hoax.” Speaker Pelosi wins quote of the day.