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TheBlackAdder

(28,226 posts) Wed Jul 29, 2020, 04:10 PM Jul 2020

In This Astounding Interview, Trump Shrugs Off Russian Bounties As 'Fake News'

"It's been widely reported that the U.S. has intelligence indicating that Russia paid bounties, or offered to pay bounties, to Taliban fighters to kill American soldiers. You had a phone call with Vladimir Putin on July 23rd. Did you bring up this issue?" Swan asked.

"No, that was a phone call to discuss other things, and frankly, that's an issue that many people said was fake news."

"Who said it was fake news?"

"I think a lot of people. If you look at some of the wonderful folks from the Bush administration, some of them, not any friends of mine, were saying that it's a fake issue, but a lot of people said it's a fake issue." (Of course. Because he carries "a lot of people" in his pocket for just these occasions!)

Trump said they talked about nuclear proliferation, but not the bounties. In fact, he has never discussed it with him.

Then he blames it on the fact that it "never reached my desk," so how important could it be?

(Too bad Swan didn't bring up the internal leaks that say Trump freaks out so much if they try to brief him on anything negative about Russia that they have, in essence, been trained not to tell him anything.)

"Do you read your written brief?" Swan said.

"Yeah, I read a lot. They like to say I don't read. I read a lot. I comprehend extraordinarily well, probably better than anybody that you've interviewed in a long time. I read a lot. I spend a lot of time at meetings. Usually it's once a day or at least two or three times a week, intelligence briefings, spoken about India, talking about with the problems with China, talking about so many different elements of the world," Trump said.

Watch the video here:
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/07/there-are-so-many-things-wrong-astounding