Tag: Russia election interference

Trump sees low risk from Mueller attacks

President Trump is ramping up attacks on Democrats over special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, a strategy designed to stir up his base that the White House sees little political risk in pursuing.

Trump views the attacks as a way to go on offense ahead of his 2020 reelection race and to portray Democrats as focused more on impeaching and tearing him down than on the nation’s best interests.

In the roughly 10 days since the redacted report was published, Trump has taken repeated jabs at the special counsel and his team on Twitter, while stonewalling Democrats seeking to delve further into Mueller’s findings.

View the complete April 30 article by Brett Samuels on The Hill website here.

GOP bails on pledge not to use stolen emails to attack opponents

The following article by Eric Boehlert was posted on the ShareBlue.com website September 7, 2018:

Republicans refuse to rule out help from Russians.

Republicans blew up long-running negotiations with Democrats this week, after both sides worked quietly for months to come to a bipartisan agreement not to use hacked or stolen information in the upcoming campaign season.

In a proposal that had been on the table, both parties agreed not to help any hacking efforts and not to search out hacked or stolen materials, and they also agreed to report any contacts with foreign operatives to law enforcement.

The GOP’s decision to abruptly end talks “only fed the complaint by Democrats that Republican lawmakers have resisted bridging partisan divisions in the two years since Russia began its brazen attack on the American political system,” the New York Times reported.

View the complete article here.