This is another sign that Trump has cracked down on his intelligence community ahead of the November election. He has not only refused to condemn Russia for interfering in the American democratic process, but is also trying to mitigate the threat posed by Moscow. In many ways, it is a repeat performance of 2016, where he made money on Russian mediation and then declined.
“We appreciate that President Vladimir Putin and most of the senior Russian officials are aware of Russia’s influence and are delivering messages aimed at discrediting the former US vice president, supporting the US president and publicly disputing before the US election in November.” Encouragement. ” Read the assessment line, according to the post.
This assessment reflects the conclusions reached by American intelligence agencies after 2016: Putin personally directed the pro-Trump mediation campaign that year.
Shades of 2016
“Our assessment is that Russia takes a number of steps, primarily to discredit former Vice President Biden and what he sees as an anti-Russian ‘establishment,'” said William Ivanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center. This is consistent with his role in supporting the opposition and with public criticism of him when he was vice president, in a statement in August.
The United States has accused Putin of directing all attempts to disrupt the 2016 presidential election in 2017.
The U.S. president praised U.S. allies for their global influence efforts, including their electoral processes. We have assessed that we will use the lessons learned from the campaign ordered by Putin for the presidential election.
In a statement from August Gust, Ivanina also accused pro-Russian Ukrainian politician Adriy Derkach of “spreading allegations of corruption” to undermine Biden’s candidacy.
The Post reported Tuesday that CIA assessment lobbies, Congress and U.S. Details of Dirkach’s efforts to spread and promote anti-biden information through news outlets. However, the document mentions that Darkach is intended to communicate with a “leading” person associated with Trump’s campaign, but does not identify that person, according to the post.
Dirkach has close ties to Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who did not name the reports in the CIA assessment. Over the past year, Dirkach has worked closely with right-wing outlets such as Giuliani and the One America News Network, according to CNN’s latest report and Dirkach’s public statements.
Derkach has published and promoted alleged dioteps of the 2016 conversation between Biden and then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
However, Trump appears to be on a separate page for the rest of his administration and also retweeted a post last month with audio Dio snippets – accusing Biden of being incompetent, although there is no evidence of wrongdoing on the tapes.
The president has also continued to promote friendly relations with Putin on the campaign trail.
“I like Putin. He likes me. We meet. Wouldn’t you say he comes along? OK? He’s smart,” he told supporters in Ohio on Monday.
Trump is still sensitive to all aspects of Russia
Trump’s stance on both past and present U.S. Consistent with their long-standing reluctance to criticize Russia for interfering in the election.
Bilateral reports from US intelligence agencies, special adviser Robert Mueller and Congress have provided overwhelming evidence that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump. Trump has denied with this voice that his campaign will join Russia. But he has also repeatedly denied the reality that Russia interfered in the election.
Instead, Trump has adopted conspiracy theories that strip Russia of responsibility. He publicly acknowledged Putin’s denial during his infamous 2018 summit in Finland, which former national security adviser John Bolton described in his book “The Room Where It Happened” as a “suicide wound” for Trump.
Trump aides told Mલરller that the president thinks accepting Russia’s role in the 201st election would represent his upset victory over Hillary Clinton.
As such, Trump has recently denied any suggestion that Russia’s threat for the next election is as dangerous as China’s partisan “witch hunt” against him – a vote factored in the message from administration officials who have focused. Sources told CNN that his public remarks on Beijing and Moscow’s actions were repulsive.
Trump has also failed to call on Russia or face direct troubles against Putin who has been a target of U.S. sanctions. And has affected its allies, including Moscow, which offered to fund the Taliban to target American troops in Afghanistan.
Trump asked reporters Monday about the incident, “Uh … we’ll talk about that next time.”
Asked if United States President Putin and other Russian officials have a duty to call in public for their actions, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper told CNN on Tuesday: “Well, of course.”
“It’s kind of what’s missing here. I’m sure a lot has been done at the federal and state and local levels, but what’s missing here is a voice that can only come from the president’s grandfather. What is it?” He added, “We are warning the Russian voters to identify what the Russians are doing and what the Russians are doing, and for whatever reason we do not have it.”
The Biden campaign seeks to capture Trump’s reluctance to criticize Russia, including attacking the president for remaining silent on issues including election interference. “This president is also freeing Russia from blaming terrorists for killing American troops. Biden has been saying for months that it is clear who Vladimir Putin wants to win this election – because it is a gift to Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The Kremlin, “campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement, responding to a report in the Washington Post on Tuesday.
Bates also condemned Trump’s allies in Congress for choosing to “assist in the conduct of foreign influence against the very sovereignty of the United States,” a clear reference to an investigation by the Senate Republican into the former vice president’s behavior in Ukraine.
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