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Trump and Putin
WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, a disclosure to Congress that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.
The day after the Feb. 13 briefing to lawmakers, Mr. Trump berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place, people familiar with the exchange said. Mr. Trump cited the presence in the briefing of Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who led the impeachment proceedings against him, as a particular irritant.
It is not a tough assignment for the Russian to sow a little more discord, confusion and distrust in our political system. I imagine that over the last few years they have been both pleased and amazed at how easy it has been to disrupt the formally powerful arrogant American state that took advantage of them during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The collapse of the Soviet Empire is a warning for the American Empire that “pride (arrogance) goeth before the fall”.