FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said he never questioned Russian leader Vladimir Putin about US intelligence reports that Moscow paid the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan, casting doubt on the reports in an interview.
Trump has been dogged by criticism that he was too friendly toward Moscow since taking office. The US intelligence community found that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to boost his chances of winning the White House. "It never reached my desk. You know why? Because they didn't think - intelligence, they didn't think it was real," Trump told Axios."I wouldn't mind - if it reached my desk, I would have done something about it."
"I don't know what could be more important than the Russians providing incentives to take the lives of Americans," he told MSNBC."I don't have any explanation except that it's part of a pattern that is no surprise to anybody that the president has been very reluctant to cross President Putin."
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