“If I see a reconciliation bill come from the House with another failed attempt to confuse this election, I will use every device I have available to slow down the wheels of government until people cop a clue and do the math,” said Tillis.
Scary brings fear, but it’s not the whole story
If voters listened to Trump’s speech without the benefits of fact-checkers or even Google, things sound really, really scary. China and Venezuela and Iran, oh my!
But while there are, no doubt, kernels of truth to what Trump is saying, it’s likely a lot more nuanced when an objective reading of the newly declassified documents is applied. After all, it’s one thing to have a low-confidence observation in a file and it’s another to be a verified operation.
It’s been understood for years that America’s adversaries and allies alike take a keen interest in how this country practices an imperfect democracy. It’s been well documented by now that Russia and Iran have looked at ways to influence outcomes, either through hack-and-publish campaigns of stolen emails or troll farms to spread conspiracy-minded trash. But there has, at least to this point, been no verified evidence that their meddling changed votes let alone outcomes.
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