
This could be why he does not remember being told about the bounties.
Courtesy of CNN:
President Donald Trump’s resistance to intelligence warnings about Russia led his national security team, including those who delivered the President’s Daily Brief to brief him verbally less often on Russia-related threats to the US, multiple former Trump administration officials who briefed Trump, were present for briefings and who prepared documents for his intelligence briefings tell CNN.
As the White House denies Trump was briefed about Russia placing bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan, which CNN has confirmed was included in the written PDB this spring, the question of what the President knew and when has moved to center stage. And it brings
Trump’s aversion to hearing negative analysis about Russia into renewed focus.
Multiple former administration officials I spoke to for my upcoming book, “The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World,” which will be published August 11 by Harper Collins, paint a picture of a President often unwilling to hear bad news about Russia.
According to one former senior intelligence official, the President’s briefers had one simple rule with Trump: never lead with Russia.
Early in his term, Trump’s briefers discovered that when his oral briefing included intelligence related to Russia’s malign activities against the United States, including evidence of its interference in US politics, Trump would often blow up at them, demanding to know why they kept focusing on Russia and often questioning the intelligence itself, multiple former administration officials said.
“The President has created an environment that dissuades, if not prohibits, the mentioning of any intelligence that isn’t favorable to Russia,” a former senior member of Trump’s national security staff told me.
I would label this unbelievable but it does in fact fit the pattern.
Remember, Trump refused to admit that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election, despite reams of intelligence proving they did, because Putin denied the allegations.
And let me also remind you that this is exactly what Christopher Steele warned us about in his dossier.
If only more people would have listened.
As for those bounties, now even the Taliban is admitting that they are real.
Courtesy of Business Insider:
Taliban commanders have confirmed that Russia has offered financial and material support to its members in exchange for attacking US forces in Afghanistan.
President Donald Trump has since strongly denied that he was told of this intelligence and attacked its credibility, characterizing the existence of Russian bounty payments as fake.
But three separate Taliban sources told Insider they were aware of Russian bounty payments being made — though they said only the less-disciplined elements on the fringes of the group would take up such an offer.
And there you have it.
It just so happens that those magnificent bastards over at the Lincoln Project have come up with the perfect ad for this moment.
I think that captures this moment quite well.
How many hundreds of millions of dollars does tRump owe Russian oligarchs/Russia/Putin? Does anyone still wonder why he keeps kissing their collective ass?
Same reason Sarah did. Secrets.
ok, there has to be more in it for trump than a tower in Moscow, a golf course in Siberia and some pee pee tape.
All I can say is putin had better have a plane ready to fly traitor trump to moscow after Nov.
Trump doesn’t want to make America great — he wants America to make him feel great: conservative columnist
“He would rather everyone be miserable with him in power than everyone be happy with him out of power.”
https://thebulwark.com/donald-trump-is-all-done-caring/
Trump aides are trying to decide if it’s a better to close down again — or just let people
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-aides-are-trying-to-decide-if-its-a-better-to-close-down-again-or-just-let-people-die/
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-response/index.html
“WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I DO?”: TRUMP DESPERATE, DESPONDENT AS NUMBERS CRATER, “LOSER” LABEL LOOMS
“They probably won’t have” the Jacksonville convention. The Joni Ernst campaign is angry at Trump’s horrible numbers. Meadows and Kushner are at loggerheads over Parscale. And if things don’t turn around by Labor Day, GOP defections may begin.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/trump-despondent-as-numbers-crater-loser-label-looms
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-campaign-forced-to-run-ads-in-iowa-as-state-becomes-presidential-battleground/
So it appears that the President of the United States and leader of the free world is, unwittingly or not, a Russian operative after all.
It is wittingly and willingly, I still say the first porn wife is a KGB agent.
Happy Canada Day, one day late!
Thank you. Celebrations were a bit different this year. Hope you enjoy your Independence Day as well. Stay safe.
Sure looks that way.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to avoid disclosing to a Democratic-led congressional panel grand jury materials related to former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report documenting Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The justices are due to hear the case in their next term, which starts in October.
The D.C. Circuit agreed with a judge’s decision that the House, in its impeachment investigation, was engaged in a judicial proceeding exempt from secrecy rules that typically shield grand jury material from disclosure. On May 20, the Supreme Court put the appeals court ruling on hold while it considered whether to hear the case.
The Supreme Court is due to rule in the coming days on another showdown between Trump and congressional Democrats, this time over whether House committees can obtain through subpoena Trump’s financial records from his long-time accounting firm, Mazars LLP.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-trump-mueller-documents_n_5efde58ac5b6ca97091a75ad
And I’m sure there’s hundreds more
Herman Cain Got Coronavirus After Not Wearing A Mask At Trump’s Rally
“We are sorry to announce that Herman Cain has tested positive for COVID-19, and is currently receiving treatment in an Atlanta-area hospital.”
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/07/02/herman-cain-no-mask-coronavirus.html
😳🦠😱🥴🤬😞
Old News. Epsteins recruiter arrested. Trumpy is soooo screwed.
Let’s hope there isn’t another “suicide” in the offing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiDkTOKI7Ro
The Lincoln Project is going to take down Trump. If they turn their resources to the Senate, Mitch McConnell is going to be made to go sit in a corner. They’ll pull his teeth.
Then there’s Veteran’s for Responsible Leadership.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nytBEWbwOkw
I don’t think veterans or active duty military are going to take kindly to their “Commander and Chief” selling them out to the Russians.
Trump can forget the military coup if that’s how he thinks he’s going to stay in office. He can forget the backing of the Death Party too. Moscow Mitch got his judges. Trump is now so toxic there is nothing he can offer them that would persuade them to protect him.
Trump is going to lose. The only question is by how much. What we need to do now is make sure it is the biggest loss in recent history. I doubt he’ll beat FDR but it needs to be considerable.
Maybe if the numbers continue to look worse and worse for him, he’ll quit rather than resign. He has until August to tell the RNC he’s decided not to run.
Don the con too ugly to be a sparrow?
What have you got against sparrows?
“The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has confirmed a report by The Associated Press that some of the service members who were mobilized to Washington, D.C., last month in response to civil unrest over the killing of George Floyd were issued bayonets. Defense documents obtained by the AP show some were not trained in riot response.”
BAYONETS! Against American Citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/soldiers-mobilized-to-dc-protests-were-issued-bayonets-report_n_5efe4988c5b612083c593dbd
“Members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, which is based in D.C. and typically guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, were mobilized last month to respond to massive protests over the treatment of Black Americans and systemic issues of police brutality. But they were never actually sent to the protests after they arrived.
The soldiers were issued bayonets for their June 2 deployment — but told they were to remain in their scabbards and not attached to their service rifles, Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Mark A. Milley wrote to two U.S. representatives in a letter that was obtained by the AP. The soldiers were also told no weapons were to enter the capital without clear orders and only after nonlethal options were first reviewed, he said.”
Oh, well, that’s okay then. But it’s not. Is this Trump’s dress rehearsal for refusing to leave the White House after he loses in November?
“Milley said the order to mobilize the troops came from Major Army Gen. Omar Jones, who serves as commander of the military district of Washington. His letter, dated June 26, was sent to two Democratic Congressmen, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, and Rep. Ted Lieu of California, who asked him for an explanation after the AP first reported on the use of bayonets on June 2.
Roughly 700 members of the 82nd Airborne Division were sent to two military bases near the District Capitol Area. The soldiers were armed with live-rounds, bayonets, and riot gear. Bloomberg reported on June 11 that the Old Guard was also issued bayonets.”
LIVE ROUNDS AND BAYONETS? What. The. Fuck.
“Milley also found himself embroiled in controversy over the White House’s response to the protesters, especially after he walked with President Donald Trump to a photo-op outside St. John’s Church after passing through Lafayette Park, which the military cleared of protesters beforehand.”
Yeah, *that* MIlley.
little donnie is scared to death that putin will make some statement of how he got the idiot elected.
Not only is he IMPEACHED FOREVER he isn’t even a legitimate president !!!