Last June, the Trump-hating reporters who always wanted to underline that then-President Donald Trump was almost traitorously soft on Russia banged a can about a New York Times story headlined Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says.
Now the liberal Daily Beast website is offering a jaw-dropping assessment: It was a huge election-time story that prompted cries of treason. But according to a newly disclosed assessment, Donald Trump might have been right to call it a hoax.
This story began with anonymous government sources and is now rebutted by anonymous government sources. The Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had low to moderate confidence in the story after all, it read. Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven and possibly untrue.
Last June, the Trump-hating reporters who always wanted to underline that then-President Donald Trump was almost traitorously soft on Russia banged a can about a New York Times story headlined "Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says."
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Trump was right all along last year about the Russian bounty story being garbage, which Democrats and the media scandalized and decried as Trump’s fault. Now the intelligence community is admitting it wasn’t credible after a review of the phony scandal:
DAILY BEAST – It was a blockbuster story about Russia’s return to the imperial “Great Game” in Afghanistan. The Kremlin had spread money around the longtime central Asian battlefield for militants to kill remaining U.S. forces. It sparked a massive outcry from Democrats and their #resistance amplifiers about the treasonous Russian puppet in the White House whose admiration for Vladimir Putin had endangered American troops.