re: #20 Dr Lizardo

If Trump wasn’t told this (which I highly doubt) there’s two possibilities - either the intel community doesn’t trust him enough to share that kind of info with him for fear he’ll go blabbing to Putin about it. Or they did in fact tell him, and Trump was too busy rage-Tweeting on his iPhone or was bored by at all and completely forgot they told him.

I’d vote for option 2: there’s enough evidence* that the “bounty” intel was passed up the chain-of-command to a high-enough level that the WH -someone in the Executive Office, anyway - had to know about it: and either didn’t inform the President (sadly, all-too-likely given the Orange Anus’s dislike of “bad news”); or else Trump WAS informed: either way they’re looking like idiots. And that’s the benign interpretation.

*maybe not “evidence” to the stand-up-in-Federal-Court level; but given the choice of:
A) Intelligence professionals, or
B) The Trump White House
I know who I’d believe….