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1/A little Sat morning thread about the President having a high level WH meeting about protecting US elections and deciding to do nothing more than what is being done. It is negligence bordering on treason. washingtonpost.com/world/national…
2/Yesterday morning stories ran on both @CNN and @NBCNews going into great detail about how unprepared the US government is to handle foreign interference this fall - of election machinery, hacking of campaigns, disinformation. Here is @CNN
3/In this @NBCNews piece @KenDilanianNBC asked the WH for the name of the person who is coordinating the election protection efforts for the US govt. They couldn't provide a name.
4/And note this from @RepAdamSchiff
5/Trump's neglect bordering on treason is not just in how he hasn't organized the government to tackle this new threat. He and the GOP leadership have refused to take up pass several smart bi-partisan bills. One is the Van Hollen/Rubio DETER Act. nbcnews.com/nightly-news/v…
6/Another smart, simple proposal ignored by the President yesterday was to put someone clearly in charge of the 2018 election protection effort. From @RepKathleenRice and @RepStefanik: rollcall.com/news/politics/…
7/And Trump has not just nothing. He has taken two concrete steps that will make it easier for foreign interference to succeed this fall. First, he eliminated the cyber coordinator position in the White House. nytimes.com/2018/05/15/tec…
8/Next, and this one crashes through to a whole new level of Trumpian venality, just months before fall election Treasury eliminated key tool we had for tracking foreign monies in US politics. It is a savage attack on our democracy, sovereignty. nonprofitlawblog.com/treasury-elimi…
9/Contrast Trump's "nothing to see here" negligence to how this conversation is now happening in the UK, or in Europe, or in most developed nations. Policymakers are really worried.
10/So what can we do? There are 3 things which should happen now: 1) Pass some version of DETER Act or other buried Senate legislation 2) Appt an election coordinator 3) Reverse Treasury relaxation of donor reporting requirements. More via @NBCNewsTHINK nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
11/As we approach fall elections hard to believe how little has been done, and that Trump took concrete steps to unravel protections we had. There are things to be done now to help 2018, but do read this from @anneapplebaum abt longer battle ahead
12/And one that is desperately needed - RNC must publicly account for critical role it played in ensuring the success of Russia's intervention in 2016. usnews.com/opinion/thomas…
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Reminder Trump's border plan was rejected by a GOP Senate; Dems offered him $25b for the wall which he turned down; and now he is rejecting Jan/Feb Senate/House debate. He has utterly failed to get his way thru democratic means so he is blowing up our govt instead. It's insane.
2/And why Dems can't give into this kind of petulant authoritarian behavior. If they do so now incentivizes Trump to go around Congress again. Critical now for Dems to reestablish regular order - hearings, bills, analysis, debate. Democracy. How its worked for over 200 years.
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1/OK, since he brought it up, let's do a deep dive on why Trump should be fearful of being indicted for what was at the end of the day of a grand conspiracy to break American election laws and cheat his way into the Presidency. A thread.
2/First, people go to jail for what he did, for years. washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/…
3/Next, it wasn't just the illegal payments to a porn star and Playboy model. It was also the conspiracy with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton, and the aiding and abetting of the massive Russian operation on his behalf once it was underway. justsecurity.org/42387/collusio…
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Democrats have a lot to do now but finding their voice challenging Russia's ongoing influence over Trump, US foreign policy more directly chief among them. Great work here fr Rachel Maddow; but consider blocking US investigation into 2016, pro-Brexit/anti-EU, Syria, etc.
2/Apropos of @maddow's great #TrumpRussia pieces last night, here is a column I wrote before the 2016 election about the alignment AT THAT TIME between Putin's world view and Trump's. usnews.com/opinion/articl… Views which also did not exist "in nature" here in the US then.
3/Want to add one other area of weird pro-Russian Trump orientation - his embrace of fossil fuels, dismissal of clean energy, climate change, etc. Yes, US ONLY NATION ON EARTH not in Paris climate accords, but also Trump is now attacking electric cars? electrek.co/2018/12/18/don…
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