Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Former Special Counsel @DeptofDefense. Co-editor-in-chief @just_security. Chaired Professor NYU Law. Former Chaired Professor Harvard Law. Co-director @RCLS_NYU
12-02-2013 06:31:09
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This should frighten you.
One of most effective questioning of Trump you’ve ever seen (by Jonathan Swan on #AxiosOnHBO )
Trump has NO GOOD response for NEVER raising Russian bounties/arming Taliban with Putin.
Plus: Russia may still be doing it.
2. Trump’s former Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk said in this article:
Trump’s failure to raise with Putin “makes whatever Pompeo may have said irrelevant, as the Russians dismiss anything Americans officials say if not backed from the top.”
justsecurity.org/71279/trump-pu…
5. Former Deputy Assistant Defense Sec. Michael Carpenter explained: the reason Russia would feel emboldened to do bounties is because Trump didn't press Putin on arms program.
We now know Trump chose not to breathe a word to Putin about either. Not a word.
justsecurity.org/71213/why-is-t…
6. Recall another signal Trump sent Putin over this time.
Trump was not just silent.
Trump pushed CIA to set up program to give the Kremlin ... US intelligence on counterterrorism.
This from CIA Senior Operations Officer Douglas London (served until end of 2018)👇