During his trip to Latin America Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Fox News that U.S. officials are already seeing signs of Russia attempting to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections.
And there’s not a whole lot the U.S. can do to stop it, he said.
“I don’t know if I would say we are better prepared because the Russians will adapt as well,” Tillerson told Fox News Tuesday. “If the point is, if it’s their intention to interfere, they’re going to find ways to do that. We can take the steps we can take, but this is something that once they decide they are going to do it, it’s very difficult to preempt it.”
Despite that assessment from his State Department chief, President Donald Trump last week refused to implement new congressionally-approved sanctions against the foreign power. The White House claimed the threat of sanctions was enough to serve as a deterrent.
The White House did comply with one demand from Congress by releasing a list of 114 Russian politicians and 96 “oligarchs” who have grown in power under Russian President Vladimir Putin. In response Putin called the list “hostile.”
Well imposing sanctions on Russia might have helped but we will never know since dl won’t bother to impose them
Well, so this is how it will play out: it will be ignored (because the St Petersburg trolls are interfering for the Goopers) but as the Dems continue to rack up wins, the conspiracy theorists (looking at you Gowdy, Nunes, and Co) will turn it on its head and claim that the Dems are only winning because the Russkies are interfering.
But then they won’t allow any investigations into their allegations. 'Cause, you know, it might turn up something to disprove their theories. Or worse. And Nunes will write a bunch more bogus memos.
The GOP is now normalizing the de facto Russia-GOP electoral alliance. Actually telling everyone to expect it and to accept that there is nothing that can be done about it.
U.S. Already Seeing Signs Of Russian Interference In 2018 Elections…
And it’s looking good for Republicans again
Ain’t those Bots something else ! #releasethememo
If you think we are actually going to stop it , you don’t know us very well do you?
In a motherfucking nutshell