Posted on 02/20/2020 3:35:43 PM PST by Libloather
Washington (CNN) The intelligence community's top election security official delivered a briefing to lawmakers last week warning them that the intelligence community believes Russia is already taking steps to interfere in the 2020 election with the goal of helping President Donald Trump win, three sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
Last week's briefing, led by election security official Shelby Pierson and first reported by The New York Times, addressed the overall picture of Russia's efforts, including hacking, weaponizing social media and attacks on election infrastructure, one of the sources said.
The briefers said Russia does favor Trump, but that helping Trump wasn't the only thing they were trying to do as it was also designed to raise questions about the integrity of the elections process, the source added.
Russia's interference in the 2016 election -- which the US intelligence community believes was aimed at boosting Trump's candidacy and hurting his opponent, Hillary Clinton -- led to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. The prospect of further interference in 2020 will further test US defenses against foreign meddling, which Trump has repeatedly downplayed as he has dismissed any suggestion that Kremlin influence played a role in his election.
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It doesn’t make any sense.
Why would Russia want to help America?
New York Times............never mind
The excuses have already been made when Trump wins again in November..he didnt really win, Russia helped him..hmmm I dont remember the Dems saying that Russia interfered in the 2018 midterm elections..or in the 2012 election, or the 2008 election gee I wonder why
So am I !!!
ML/NJ
CNN just keeps trying.
And I’m sure both of their viewers still believe them.
The “intelligence community” is spreading their propaganda.
Russia did not help Trump win in 2016.
The citizens did.
Give it a rest, deep state. This hound won’t hunt a blind pig with an acorn flogging a dead horse crying wolf.
So that Trump will give more aid to their enemy, Ukraine.
Oh, wait . . .
SO SAYS JIM ACOSTA !!!
NYT and Little Jimmy Acosta, what a combo.
Why in the world would Russia favor a devout Capitalist over a proven Communist?
Common sense tells us this is total crapola concocted propaganda.
NOT MY PRESIDENT REDUX !!!
Election security official needs to fired for lying to Congress. “Believes” is no bases for a security brief. It is a 2016 political fiction being re-written in 2020
I belie, based on the record of the last 4 years, that bureaucrats in the DOJ and “intelligence community” are daily working to depose the duly elected President of the US.
The difference is MY believe is based on observable date unlike the “belif” of the lying scum in the US Government Bureaucracy and the shamless liars in the Fake News.
Jim Acosta and Dana Bash and some other guy wrote it. Surprise.
We KNOW Putin is bankrolling the Dems. Their own Impeachment witness said it. So this “Security official” needs to be fired today for gross incompetence. Russian isn’t interested in helping the guy making the USA Energy Independent
Putin bankrolling Democrat Anti Fracking
Laid out for all to see:
The CIA thinks the US electorate (you and me) are so dumb tnat we don’t know how to vote.
Therefore the evil Russians can and do lead us around by the nose.
The irony is that the it is the CIA and the rest of the swamp that wants to lead us around by our noses.
I heard the other day that a Russian government official congratulated Burny for winning New Hampshire. Was I hearing correctly?
“...intelligence community’s top election security official delivered a briefing to lawmakers last week warning them that the intelligence community believes...”
The Deep State Scum are at it again, and they are continuing to ramp it up.
There probably be more than that so the progs can claim the combination of factors interfering is why PDJT wins with 330+ electoral votes.
That will be the reason no one "factor" can be proven to be the reason Trump wins.
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