In an interview with Fox Business Network, President Donald Trump, called intelligence assessments on Russian bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan a “hoax."

The president insisted anew he hadn't been briefed on them because the intelligence didn't rise to his level.

After long resisting wearing a mask in public, he also said Wednesday he thinks it makes him look like the Lone Ranger - and he likes it.

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