WASHINGTON: President Donald
Trump
on Sunday rejected that he had been briefed on reported United States intelligence that a Russian military intelligence system covertly used bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in
Afghanistan
, and he appeared to decrease the allegations against Moscow.
American intelligence authorities concluded months ago that Russian officials offered rewards for effective attacks on American service-members last year, at a time when the US and Taliban were holding speak with end the long-running war, according to The New york city Times.
Trump, in a Sunday early morning tweet, said “Nobody briefed or told me” or Vice President Mike Pence or chief of staff Mark Meadows about “the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians.”
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