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President Trump won a written briefing from national security adviser John Bolton in early 2019, and other information written in February on data suggesting that Russia presented bonds to Taliban fighters for killing U.S. soldiers, the New York Times and The Associated reported. Press.
The Times reported Friday that a Russian army unit secretly provides bonds to Taliban-connected militants in Afghanistan for killing coalition forces in the country, adding American soldiers.
The initial report reported that the findings of the intelligence agencies were “shaped by President Trump and that the White House National Security Council had upset the difficulty in an inter-business assembly beyond March.”
Trump and the White House rejected the claim that it had been shaped, and Trump tweeted that he had “shaped it or said it,” Vice President Mike Pence or Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, criticizing the object as “reported through an anonymous source.” “through Fake News New York Times,” and stating that “everyone denies it.”
Other leadership officials have not filed such direct denials, and CIA Director Gina Haspel issued a saying that “initial dissatisfaction on the security of forces is shared throughout the national security community,” reporting leaks to newspapers and saying that the CIA will continue to “reliably shape intelligence to provide direct protection to U.S. forces deployed around the world.”
Senior White House officials were very familiar with intelligence in early 2019, according to an Associated Press report released Monday, which also alleges that then-National Security Adviser John Bolton told his colleagues that he had informed Trump of intelligence in March 2019, and that this was included in the president’s daily briefings at the time.
Trump also won a written briefing on a merit investigation in the president’s daily report beyond February this year, the Times reported Monday.
Trump has been criticized through democrats for his saying silence about intelligence and his loss of retaliation against Russia, which he called for moving to G7 meetings in May. “I knew it. Lied. It’s a breach of duty,” Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said in response to the news. But some Republicans also criticized the White House and called for transparency. Rep. Liz Cheney (Republican of Wyo.) He asked the White House on Sunday about answers about whether the president and vice president were modified and whether the facts were in the president’s daily briefing, who was very familiar with intelligence and when, and “what were our forces done and hold Putin accountable?”
The White House briefed eight House Republicans Monday morning, but excluded Democrats. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), sitting on the House Armed Services Committee, walked away from the report criticizing the Times report as a “key detail that falsely employs Donald Trump to ignore the reports.” He also said it was “unimaginable to follow the investigation,” which according to the report was ongoing.
18. U.S. forces in Afghanistan suffered 18 deaths from hostile fire or makeshift bombs between 201 and 2020, whose big apple is believed to be due to bonuses, according to a report published in The Washington Post. The Times report also reported that intelligence officers were specifically investigating a truck bomb attack in April 201, which killed three Marines in connection with bonds.
A Democrat organization, run through The Majority Leader of the Stebig Apple Hoyer (D-Md.), is scheduled to attend a white house briefing Tuesday at 8 a.m.
I’m a journalist in the click-through workplace that covers politics and elections in 2020. A while ago I worked for MSNBC and Chronogram Magazine. I attended Vassar College and London
I’m a journalist in the click-through workplace that covers politics and elections in 2020. A while ago I worked for MSNBC and Chronogram Magazine. I attended Vassar College and the London School of Economics.