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New Reports on Russian Interference Don’t Show What Trump Says They Do
The New York Times ^ | July 25, 2025 Updated 5:21 p.m. ET | Charlie Savage

Posted on 07/25/2025 6:34:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The administration’s claims are overblown, but newly declassified information provides some messy details about a January 2017 intelligence assessment of Moscow’s election interference.

The Trump administration in recent weeks has released a series of reports intended to undermine the conclusion reached by intelligence agencies before President Trump’s first term that Russia had favored his candidacy in 2016 and sought to improve his chances of winning.

That assessment, an unclassified version of which was made public in January 2017, has long infuriated Mr. Trump. In disclosing the reports, he and his team are proclaiming that President Barack Obama and his team torqued the intelligence analysis process to deliberately discredit Mr. Trump’s election.

The administration has coupled that case with overheated and attention-grabbing claims. Mr. Trump has accused Mr. Obama of treason, and his top officials have made criminal referrals about national security officials under Mr. Obama — all as the administration is trying to distract supporters who are angry about its broken promise to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Still, even if the administration’s use of the reports is wildly overstated, some of the information has not been made public before. It provides some messy details about how the intelligence community assessment was hurriedly produced during Mr. Obama’s final months in office.

The assessment said that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had ordered a multifaceted information operation targeting the U.S. presidential election, including by hacking and releasing Democratic emails and by seeding social media with messages promoting Mr. Trump and denigrating his rival, Hillary Clinton.

The assessment also attributed three motivations to Mr. Putin. Two have not been seriously challenged: He wanted to undermine public faith in democracy and to damage Mrs. Clinton, who until election night was...


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” --George Orwell
1 posted on 07/25/2025 6:34:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nothing to see here Move along Back to EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN.


2 posted on 07/25/2025 6:36:20 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Needs Barf Alert


3 posted on 07/25/2025 6:37:35 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NY Times?.....not worth the paper it’s used to be printed on,even the puppy trainers have moved on.


4 posted on 07/25/2025 6:38:00 PM PDT by Nekman (The Dems are SocialistCommunistUtopianMarxists...SCUM for short...it FITS!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Russian spent like 100k on Election interference, and that’s on the high side.

They spend more than that in 3 mins in Ukraine.

Obama brought in Billions. You couldn’t get a picture with Obama for the total amount Comey and Strzok claims Russia spent.

They had all Hillary’s info, her accounts were hacked.


5 posted on 07/25/2025 6:39:25 PM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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They still havent given back the Pulitzer Prize award for outstanding journalism given to their lying drunk reporter Walter Duranty who claimed there was no communist-induced famine in Ukraine that caused 8 million murders from deliberate starvation.


6 posted on 07/25/2025 6:41:49 PM PDT by laconic
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What else can the NYT say? They were involved in the scam.
7 posted on 07/25/2025 6:48:31 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Everyone that voted Trump/R in '24 needs to show up in '26.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

These are not the droids you are looking for.


8 posted on 07/25/2025 6:50:27 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My understanding was that the Russians tried to hack both parties, but the Democrat’s security was lax, so they succeeded there when they couldn’t with the Republicans.


9 posted on 07/25/2025 6:50:32 PM PDT by x
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XLNT Point.


10 posted on 07/25/2025 6:56:55 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Lie like The Times"

The New Jerk ButtSlimes weighs in for the Derp State...

11 posted on 07/25/2025 6:58:06 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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Someone needs to post that chart of the progression from “This is a conspiracy theory!” to “Something did happen but it wasn’t this.” to “Well it did happen but it’s not as bad they make it out” to “Okay, yes, it’s true.”


12 posted on 07/25/2025 7:05:43 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Does the NY Times have a Pulitzer to defend?


13 posted on 07/25/2025 7:22:23 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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The NYT reflexively covering for the Obama Coup Crew once again. Still they are denying that Obama, in any way, shape, form, or manner, ever, EVER could have organized a campaign to drive Trump from office in ignominy and disgrace, and follow with persecutions and harassments even after departure from the Oval Office. But the record is showing what is there, with even more substantiation to come as more and more background is uncovered and released.


14 posted on 07/25/2025 7:33:57 PM PDT by alloysteel (Try to understand, God is not finished with me yet. Still lots of room for improvement.)
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NYT is the center of all propaganda from Obama Brennan Clapper Comey.


15 posted on 07/25/2025 7:50:02 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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“They were involved in the scam.”

Yes, exactly. The NYTimes is getting shriller and shriller, trying to keep all eyes on Epstein, and away from Obama’s Russia-hoax (which the NYTimes abetted).
They must be worried.


16 posted on 07/25/2025 7:57:43 PM PDT by RAldrich
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The opposite of journalism.

“Yeah, Trump is the real liar here, not Brennan under oath in front of Congress, not Comey, swearing out bogus FISA warrants.

It’s just standard gaslighting bulls**t.


17 posted on 07/25/2025 8:05:18 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

E. pluribus has a love affair going with the NY times. He posts almost all of their drivel here.


18 posted on 07/25/2025 8:12:12 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Frank Drebin

You left out “That’s old news.”


19 posted on 07/25/2025 9:23:47 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“It provides some messy details . . . “

Very messy.


20 posted on 07/25/2025 9:42:38 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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