LogFAQs > #941549270

Trump is likely downplaying the bounty story not because of some sort of loyalty to Russia, but because he just hopes it disappears like the covid situation. He is not really about addressing anything other than his own personal grievances, actual problems are not interesting to him. Having said that, I do think that the fear of war is much more pressing a concern than the actual bounties, which are being massively overplayed. It is just a routine tactic of intelligence to fund 3rd party groups to fight your battles. It isn't worth risking a more 'hot' war over, nor is it new or something the US can prevent, and we engage in it ourselves against countries like Russia. In this situation, the lack of public response is just fine, these sorts of entanglements are not really the job of the president to respond to, the cold war business is all intel agencies, even if the 'fake news' claims are bogus.