{"id":41322,"date":"2020-02-21T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41322"},"modified":"2020-02-21T00:00:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T00:00:46","slug":"you-mean-the-russians-are-interfering-again-wow-whoda-thunk-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41322","title":{"rendered":"You mean the Russians are interfering again? Wow! Who’da thunk it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It can’t be. The Russians cannot possibly attack our electoral system yet again after what they did in 2016. Can they?<\/p>\n

I guess they can! The New York Times is reporting<\/a> that the Russians are at it once more. Indeed, now we hear that Donald John Trump, the nation’s current president, was so angry over the news that he fired the acting director of national intelligence and installed a loyalist into the job as the latest acting\u00a0 DNI.<\/p>\n

Actually, it is being reported that Trump got mad because the former acting DNI, Joseph Maguire, consented to a congressional briefing. That’s reportedly why he replaced him with U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grennell, a guy with zero experience at any level of intelligence, let alone at the director of national intelligence level.<\/p>\n

Let’s remember that Trump dismissed the 2016 election attack, most infamously in 2018 at the Helsinki press event in which he stood next to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and backed Putin’s denial over the U.S. intelligence agencies’ assessment that Russia had interfered in the previous presidential election.<\/p>\n

Now we hear that the Russians have done it again!<\/p>\n

This is scary in the extreme. Trump already is known to have solicited another foreign government, Ukraine, for a political favor. It got him impeached by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Here come the Russians once more, working to re-elect<\/em> the president. They want to ensure that Trump gets a second term as POTUS, a move that is sure to sow as many seeds of anger and mistrust in our electoral system that the 2016 attack managed to accomplish.<\/p>\n

Think of it. That’s precisely<\/em> what the Russians want to do.<\/p>\n

Didn’t the president take an oath to protect this nation against its enemies? Didn’t he vow to keep us and our institutions safe from this kind of attack?<\/p>\n

What the \u2026 whatever?<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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It can’t be. The Russians cannot possibly attack our electoral system yet again after what they did in 2016. Can they? I guess they can! The New York Times is reporting that the Russians are at it once more. Indeed, now we hear that Donald John Trump, the nation’s current president, was so angry over … Continue reading You mean the Russians are interfering again? Wow! Who’da thunk it?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,7225,3360,8247],"class_list":["post-41322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-2016-election","tag-2020-election","tag-ny-times","tag-russian-election-interference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41326,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41322\/revisions\/41326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}