The Russian bounty story isn’t going away.

I say that in light of the criticism President Trump attracted this week on this issue. Trump was asked by Axios’s Jonathan Swan whether he raised with Vladimir Putin the possibility that Russia’s GRU intelligence service paid the Taliban bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Trump said “no” because the two presidents wanted to “discuss other things, and frankly, [the bounty reports are] an issue that many people said was fake news.” The president said his main interest in that July 23 call with Putin was on reaching a new nuclear arms control agreement.