No indication alleged Russia payments were a 'hoax': House Dem
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No indication alleged Russia payments were a 'hoax': House Dem
Representative Steny Hoyer, the No.
2 Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, on Tuesday said after a White House briefing on a reported Russian effort to pay the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, that 'nothing' from that briefing indicated that the alleged payments were a 'hoax'.