Story highlights Donald Trump was asked Wednesday about a Tuesday report from Dutch investigators that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in 2014 by a Russian-made rocket
But Trump later said the culprit was "probably" Russia and pro-Russian fighters
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump doesn't believe there is enough evidence to blame pro-Russian separatists for last year's downing of a commercial airliner over Ukraine -- despite the fact that the U.S. intelligence community believes "with confidence" that pro-Russian separatists shot it down.
"That's a horrible thing that happened," he said. "It's disgusting and disgraceful but Putin and Russia say they didn't do it, the other side said they did, no one really knows who did it, probably Putin knows who did it. Possibly it was Russia but they are totally denying it."
Trump was responding to a question from CNN noting that the U.S. government assesses that the several points of available evidence all point to Russia.
The question from CNN came after Trump was asked on MSNBC Wednesday about a new report from Dutch investigators that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a Russian-made rocket and warhead -- and asked what he would do as president to hold Russia accountable.
U.S. intelligence determined with confidence soon after the attack that a Russian-supplied missile brought the jet down from territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists. U.S. intelligence continues to stand by that assessment.
girlsgonekyle on July 17th, 2018 at 17:21 UTC »
"the other side said they did,"
THE OTHER SIDE IS US YOU DUMB FUCK. WE SAID THEY DID.
buggsbunnysgarage on July 17th, 2018 at 14:38 UTC »
Here in The Netherlands our primier said that he will not rest untill Russia takes it responsibility for downing the MH17, by prosecuting the military man who gave the order. Problem is im afraid Russia will allways keep denying their involvement in basically killing the 196 dutch (and some more other nationality) passengers, and Holland is too small to actually force a statement off of Russia..
280394433708491 on July 17th, 2018 at 14:26 UTC »
That’s funny because in 2014 there is an obscure audio recording of then candidate Trump seemingly lay some blame on Putin for the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. [Starts @ 3:58]
Held a gold bounty to see if anyone could find Trump criticizing Putin, other than what I posted, this was the only valid submission.
It’s almost like he’s a fucking treasonous liar or bumbling idiot.