Donald Trump with US troops at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, November 28, 2019 (Tom Brenner/Reuters)
Did Donald Trump protect President Vladimir Putin over any US response to a Russian bounty for the Taliban’s killing of US troops in Afghanistan?
Or was Trump ignorant of the US intelligence on the Russian scheme, discussed in a high-level White House meeting in late March?
I discuss the case and the possibilities with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Beverley O’Connor on Monday: