Why are we not discussing that Trump regularly gets intel from conversations with foreign adversaries—especially Putin—and that reporting establishes he has undisclosed conversations with the Russian president? Maybe he doesn& #39;t care about the bounty story because Putin denied it?

So much Trump-scandal reporting sounds critical of Trump but is actually generously exculpatory, as it implies he& #39;s in the dark. But that& #39;s not what the evidence suggests: it suggests he gets his intel from *whatever sources say what he wants to hear*—even if it& #39;s the Kremlin.

My research on years of dodgy Trump-Putin conversations establishes that if Trump gets intel that creates a logistical problem for his Trump Organization–oriented foreign policy agenda, he talks to Putin—or whichever adversary—and immediately *accepts their denial* of the intel.

So I don& #39;t think journalists should be so quick to accept that either Trump wasn& #39;t briefed on the bounties or was briefed and forgot—as his past practice suggests that he would& #39;ve received the information and shortly thereafter received a denial from Putin and simply accepted it.

Moreover, *if* the president is incapable of understanding or accepting intelligence on acts of war against our soldiers, he quite simply *can& #39;t be president* and needs to be removed from office immediately. Neither stupidity nor willful ignorance is an option in the Oval Office.