Executive Order 13848 is In Play. By Douglas Wilson. In 2018, Trump signed an executive order that placed the United States in a state of emergency with regard to foreign interference in our elections.This was signed without a great deal of fanfare at the time, but it would have been hard for the Democrats to make anything of it because they were in the middle of claiming that some Russians had destroyed our democracy through buying a handful of Facebook ads. They were on a crazed foreign interference jag, and so they weren’t really in a position to say that...