U.S. Intelligence Says Republicans Are Working With Russia to Reelect Trump

[Nevilledog]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/08/russia-ukraine-trump-biden-intelligence-foreign-interference-election.html

Two weeks ago, William Evanina, director of the United States National Counterintelligence and Security Center, published a somewhat vague warning about various forms of foreign interference in the upcoming election. On Friday, he followed up with a more direct and incriminating one, specifically warning that Russia is working to help reelect Donald Trump. Even more important is what this warning unmistakably implies: that Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are actively cooperating with Russia’s campaign.

Trump obviously tends to respond with rage at the suggestion that Russia wants him to win, let alone that he is accepting the assistance. So Evanina’s summary delicately surrounds the revelations about Trump and Moscow with superficially balancing material. The report highlights three countries that want to influence the election: Russia, China, and Iran. The report notes that the latter two want Trump to lose, while Russia wants him to win.

This seems intended to let Republicans claim that there is foreign interference on both sides. And it’s true, as far as it goes.

But the comparisons end there. What is China doing to defeat Trump? Its government has “grown increasingly critical of the current Administration’s COVID-19 response, closure of China’s Houston Consulate, and actions on other issues.” And Iran’s efforts “probably will focus on on-line influence, such as spreading disinformation on social media and recirculating anti-U.S. content.”

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[redstatebluegirl]

1. I wonder if David Nunes and Gym Jordan have ties to Russian hackers.

[demosincebirth]

6. I'd bet half my house on it.

[FM123]

2. Very good article!

Rachel touched upon this the other night.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russian-election-interference-finds-ready-conduit-in-gop-senators-89763397688

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[CaptYossarian]

4. This is "Trump For President, Part Duh".

Same election, different year.

This is why Moscow Mitch & co. wouldn't protect our elections.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. I think all already (especially on DU, and other intelligent forums) that interference is

expected and thus, this so called interference is seen and brushed off quite a bit. Kind of like 'crying wolf' too many times.

The ones most likely to be impacted w/ such interference by foreign entities are the ones already most impacted by such nonsense (and were years and years ago). These are the idiots that read the National Enquirer, and thus, are lost to reasoning, logic and general BS anyways.

Who cares about these idiots anyway? I don't. They're the ones who will claim that no cars are coming, try and cross the street
anyway, and get hit and killed by the car (that is in fact, actually there). They are the ones not wearing masks while in church, or in other crowded venues, and thus, getting sick by the dozens (or more) and some are dying. They're the ones that don't believe in vaccines. They're the ones that will die more than likely way before anyone does, after all, it is the survival of the fittest.

The digital world makes it easy to perpetuate falsehoods and other such nonsense across the Internet, but it only works for a shot time, the kind of fool me once, fool me twice, etc. methodology that looses its impact after being abused for literally thousands of times by all manner of agents, some of whom are foreign, but most of them are regular Americans (idiots) that have some agenda of their own to perpetuate such myths, etc. Kind of like the 'junk mail' of old, that came via the USPS.