President Trump responded to a New York Times report about American intelligence learning of Russia offering bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces including American troops, insisting that no one briefed him, Vice President Mike Pence, or White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on this.
," Trump tweeted Sunday morning. "Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us. Nobody’s been tougher on Russia than the Trump Administration."
This echoed a statement from Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who said he "confirmed that neither the president nor the vice president were ever briefed on any intelligence alleged by the New York Times in its reporting yesterday." The president went on to accuse his presumptive November opponent, former vice president Joe Biden, and former President Barack Obama of allowing Russia to get away with actions such as their takeover of Crimea. Trump then said that the latest report was "[p]robably just another phony Times hit job."
During a virtual town hall event on Saturday, Biden said that if the Times' reporting is true, Trump's knowledge of the situation would be a "truly shocking revelation." "Not only has he failed to sanction or impose any kind of consequences on Russia for this egregious violation of international law, Donald Trump has continued his embarrassing campaign of deference and debasing himself before Vladimir Putin," Biden said, noting that Trump has offered to host Putin in the U.S.
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