U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops

TacoMac

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Nobody is "walking back" anything.

The report hasn't changed. It contains reports that the bounties were made.

The report goes on to state that those reports couldn't be verified. (Oddly, the Russians wouldn't freely confess they had done it.)

So when that report was leaked and it went viral and Trump was asked a multitude of times to comment on it, he refused.

Why?

All he had to do was release the full report and that would have ended it.

He wouldn't do that.

Why?

Two possible reasons:
  1. He was told by Russia to say nothing knowing it would cause more unrest and conflict.
  2. Trump actually enjoys outrage so he let the story fester into a big ordeal.
Then again, there's a very good likelihood it's both.
 
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