Author: Mary Lawlor

Mary Lawlor The news that Russian officials put a bounty on the heads of American servicemen in Afghanistan months ago, that Trump was notified of this move in one of his daily briefings, and that he subsequently did nothing about it while continuing to publicly embrace Vladimir Putin as his friend has been gaining traction this last week. Most recently Trump has declared that he and his team never knew anything about it (and tried, in an utterly unpersuasive manner, to step back from this declaration). Joe Scarborough has an effective segment on the matter.  Not as well known:...