Susan Rice: Trump elects Putin over troops “even when it comes to the blood of American service members”

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Rice, who also served as national security adviser to former President Obama, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he believes Trump received intelligence that Russia was offering rewards to Taliban-linked militants for killing members of the coalition service and the United States in Afghanistan.

“The message for Vladimir Putin is that you can kill American men and women with absolute impunity,” he said. “This is an extraordinary revelation. The President of the United States has shown an utterly cruel disregard for the safety of American forces in a war zone and there is no explanation for this. “

“We now learn that even when it comes to the blood of service members, this president elects Putin over our troops,” he added.

The former national security adviser said intelligence is “very, very rarely” tested with “100 percent certainty” after administration officials have claimed that the intelligence was conflicting.

He said that if advisers did not inform Trump about intelligence last year, he believes it would be “because they are afraid of him.”

Rice, a possible contender for alleged Democratic nominee Joe BidenJoe BidenTrump reaches the “radical left,” the media, China on Independence Day heads to Kaepernick on July 4: “We reject his celebration of white supremacy.” Jaime Harrison seeks to convince Democrats that he can defeat Lindsey Graham MOREThe election of the vice president also cited that “everything [Trump] It has done so since its denial of the intelligence community’s findings on Russian interference in the 2016 election has benefited Russia.

She noted her “defense” of Putin at the Helsinki Summit, her invitation to Russia to join the G7, and the removal of a third of US troops from Germany.