President Trump received a written briefing and a briefing from then-National Security Advisor John Bolton in early 2019, and another written briefing this February, about intelligence that suggests Russia offered bounties to Taliban fighters for killing U.S. soldiers, according to reports from the New York Times and the Associated Press.

Top White House officials were aware of the intelligence in early 2019, according to a report from the Associated Press on Monday, which also claims that then-National Security Advisor John Bolton told colleagues he briefed Trump on the intelligence in March 2019, and that it was included in one the president’s written daily intelligence briefings around that time.

Trump also received a written briefing on an investigation into the bounties as part of the President’s Daily Brief in late February of this year, the Times reported Monday.


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