President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to interfere in the American presidential election to denigrate the candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr., including intelligence operations to influence people close to former President Donald J. Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released Tuesday.The report did not name those people but seemed to be a reference to the work of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, who relentlessly pushed allegations of corruption about Mr. Biden and his family involving Ukraine.“Russian state and proxy actors who all serve the Kremlin’s interests worked to affect U.S. public perceptions in a consistent manner,” the report said.
For all of the stale US debate about whether Trump and his aides "colluded" with Russia, there are now multiple reports, intelligence assessments and other known details to expose a damning reality: Moscow with its election meddling, Trump acolytes pushing false claims of voter fraud and his GOP supporters in the states now passing voter suppression laws share the same goal -- the denigration of the US democratic system.
Somehow this administration can't seem to get away from scandals involving RussiaThis time it's about Russia paying bounties to Taliban militants for killing US soldiers. The official line from the WH is that Trump was never briefed on the matter, though reports refute this notion, detailing briefings going back to at least Feb 2020. So either our own intelligence agencies did not brief the President, or they did and Trump has done nothing and denies knowing anything about it before this week.take your pick of news outlets, none of them are particularly kind to Trump in this matter...https://www.npr.org/2020/06/30/885033809/dems-fault-trump-over-russia-bounty-allegations-ask-for-more-informationhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-wasnt-briefed-on-russian-bounty-intelligence-because-it-wasnt-verified-white-house-says-11593455761https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/politics/russia-bounties-presidential-daily-briefing/index.htmlhttps://thehill.com/homenews/administration/505153-cnn-russian-bounty-intel-was-included-in-trumps-daily-briefinghttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/multiple-intelligence-streams-russian-bounties-for-us-troops-trump-not-briefedhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/29/timeline-russia-bounties-us-troops-afghanistan-trump-response/https://fox59.com/news/politics/white-house-trump-not-briefed-on-unverified-bounties/
