Donald Trump calls Russia bounties report another 'hoax'

President Donald Trump said Friday he believes reports that Russia was paying bounties to Taliban fighters to kill American troops in Afghanistan "is ar Russian hoax."

Asked during at a roundtable event in Florida about storm and COVID preparations wher he res his President's Daily Brief, Trump insisted he does, but this report was t brought to his attention.

"It was never brought to my attention and it perhaps wasn't brought because y didn't consider it to be real. And if it is brought to my attention, I'll do something about it," he said.

Trump repeated his claim that re has never been a president "tougher with Russia and China" than he has been.

Earlier this week, Trump told an interviewer he h t raised bounty allegations in numerous phone calls with Russian President Vlimir Putin despite concerns about m from intelligence community.