Biden Calls Trump’s Knowledge Of Bounties On US Troops A ‘Betrayal Of The Most Sacred Duty’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden attacked President Donald Trump on Saturday over a report that he said, if true, contains a “truly shocking revelation” about the commander in chief and his failure to protect U.S. troops in Afghanistan and stand up to Russia.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1317554
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Biden called it a “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.”

Biden is too nice to the UnAmerican Russsian-Installed IMPeetus…

Trump is a treasonous, traitorous, thug who willingly exchanged American soldier’s lives so that he could “repay” his debt of election interference to his puppet master Putin!

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The White House said neither Trump nor Vice President Mike Pence was briefed on such intelligence. “This does not speak to the merit of the alleged intelligence but to the inaccuracy of the New York Times story erroneously suggesting that President Trump was briefed on this matter,” press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement.

Good grief — their only reaction is “we didn’t know nothin’”?

Not gonna work, traitors.

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Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s latest piece of moral filth has proved again that when a Trumper opens their mouth, that’s when you know they are lying.

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tRumpWH says it’s not true, putin says it’s not true. It seems likely true. So what’s it going to take Republicans?

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Trump didn’t just not do anything. He’s been trying to get Russia back into the G7 for the past few months.

Anyone who suggests Biden ‘look forward, not back’ upon taking office is a traitor to this country.

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This is the story that will keep some of Trump’s supporters away from the polls in Nov. Dems/Biden need to pound on this outrage until election day.

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When are some of my sister and brother Vets and those on active duty learn Trump does not give a fuck about us?
Truth be told only those who publicly kiss his ass matter and once they start they can never stop.

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Crooked Donald is more concerned with saving Confederate generals that are already dead, than our present-day Yankee soldiers.

Putin’s bounty on U.S.soldiers…Trump knew?

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Like that is somehow better?

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Makes me wonder what Trump’s boys think about this. They are after all weepy about their guys in the combat zone.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/27/russia-offered-bounties-afghanistan-militants-killing-us-soldiers-report-outrage.

Here are the military servicemen killed last year in Afghanistan. I wonder which one was a deliberate hit.

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During the Vietnam was the story was that there were bounties on certain Americans, Carlos Hathcock comes to mind, but these bounties were targeted at specific individuals who were particularly successful in their mission. In this case it is just scalp collecting for cash.
I think when this story gets some wider distribution some vets who wake up saluting will soften their stances.

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I’m fairly positive the story is true because McEnany didn’t deny the merits of the story in her defense of Trump and Pence. She simply denied they were read into the situation, which is undoubtedly a damn lie. Based on this alone, Trump must resign.

By the way, was any of this mentioned in Bolton’s book? Or did this not occur in a room where it didn’t happen? I suspect he didn’t bring it up because, otherwise, it would have been the book’s highlight. Another reason not to buy the damn thing.

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For cash, a deliberate hit for cash.

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Maybe he had to leave it out because it was classified. Now that it’s out we’ll see what he has to say.

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Good point.

Republicans have to go on the record here. If they don’t insist on full transparency and investigations, they should be voted out.

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Trump, Pence…Grennel…all saying a lot of things. Didn’t know about it. No one told me etc. BUT…none are saying it did not happen. What they’d like us to believe is no one told them this was going on. Doesn’t fit what happened yesterday. The NYT sprung this story with sources from the DIA and other intel agencies. Those guys are loathe to leak and uber loathe to leak to the “liberal media” but it seems they did. There’s only one reason they’d do that. The information was not acted upon within channels so they went out of them. Something had to be done and official channels were not getting it done.

Susan Collins…if you’re listening…do you think Trump learned that lesson?

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