One week in the presidency of President Donald Trump.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russian nationals and 3 entities capped an intense week, even by the standards of Trump’s tumultuous presidency. The indictment lays out an “illegally mounted an ‘information warfare’ scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election that favored then-candidate Donald Trump and involved ‘unwitting’ U.S. citizens and Trump campaign officials.”
“The dramatic indictment reveals even bolder Russian interference than previously known — led by the Saint Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, a notorious online misinformation operation with suspected Kremlin ties — that went beyond the previously understood use of ‘fake news’ and social media misdirection.”
President Trump’s first take was that the indictment was vindication. He tweeted that the indictment showed no collusion between his staff and the sophisticated Russian operation. But, as POLITICO’s Matthew Nussbaum reports, that’s not the whole story:
“The indictment, like intelligence reports before it, came to no conclusion about the impact of the Russian campaign. And, for the first time, Americans were shown in granular detail how Russian spies worked to sway the election in Trump’s favor, with everything from social media campaigns and ad buys to the organization of rallies and payments to demonstrators dressing up as Hillary Clinton in a cage.”
PROGRAMMING NOTE: Trump After Dark will be off for the holiday on Monday. We’ll see you back here next week.
Source : politico
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