The Morrison government doesn't want to talk about Trump and the shocking Russian bounty story, writes Peter Hartcher
Australia was not mentioned in the reporting but still has hundreds of military personnel in Afghanistan as trainers of the Afghan army. Forty-one Australian forces have been killed and 261 wounded in the theatre since 2001. According to the, the US officials reported this discovery to their superiors in January. It went to a high-level White House meeting in March – an inter-agency meeting of the National Security Council.
In fact, Trump has steadfastly defended Putin against every criticism and gone out of his way to favour him. In the time since the White House National Security Council discussed the Russian bounties three months ago, the US President invited Putin to join a forthcoming summit of the G-7. Russia had been expelled from the group of industrial democracies for its military aggression against its neighbour, annexing Crimea and invading eastern Ukraine.
Conservative Republican Liz Cheney publicly posed three questions for Trump to answer. Cheney is the chair of the House Republican Conference, a key party caucus, and daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney.
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