As security officials prepare for Russian attack on 2020 presidential race, Trump and aides play down the threat
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In the past week, Justice Department prosecutors indicated that Russia’s efforts to disrupt the 2016 election are part of a long-term strategy that the United States continues to confront. For more than two years, however, Trump has recoiled when aides broached Russia’s 2016 theft and dissemination of Democratic emails and its manipulation of social media in an effort to sway the election.
Senior security officials say the president directed them to ensure that the 2018 midterm elections were protected. During discussions in the Oval Office, Trump has regularly conflated the threat of foreign interference with attacks on the legitimacy of his election, the current and former officials said.
When Kirstjen Nielsen brought up election interference when she was secretary of homeland security, Trump quickly moved the conversation to immigration enforcement, two administration officials said. In one briefing before the 2018 election, Nielsen went to the White House to talk about interference and Trump changed the conversation to the caravan of immigrants coming from Mexico, aides said.
“Part of what you’re seeing is her frustration with getting Bolton to focus on this, trying to get the [National Security Council] to pull together regular, constructive policy conversations” on the matter.
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