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After Swan rightly notes that regardless of the bounty story, Intel says Russia is supplying weapons to the Taliban, and asks “Isn't that enough to challenge Putin over the killings of American soldiers?” Trump says “Well we supplied weapons when they were fighting Russia too.“ https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1288450262068232192
2/ The president continually makes the argument that the US and Russia are morally equivalent — remember when O’Reilly told him in 2017 that Putin is a killer and he said “We have a lot of killers...you think our country is so innocent?”
3/ But more to this point, this was a US President not only admitting he has never challenged Putin about the fact that Russia supplies arms to Taliban terrorists who use them to kill US servicemembers, he was trying to explain it away.
4/ The president also said that after GEN Nicholson in 2018 said that Russia is arming the Taliban, he “didn't ask Nicholson about that.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-43500299
