'U.S. Intelligence Agencies See Trump's Debate Tactics As A Clear Signal To Putin': NYT
'U.S. intelligence agencies see Trump's debate tactics as a clear signal to Putin: NYTimes.' Daily Kos, Sept. 30, 2020.
The New York Times has released an analysis of Tuesday’s Presidential debate confirming a nightmarish scenario few of us, prior to 2016, would ever have dreamed possible in this country. Written by David Sanger, it is titled, ”Tuesday’s Debate Made Clear the Gravest Threat to the Election: The President Himself.”
Sanger initially notes that Trump’s rant-filled conclusion to the first of what, up to this strange point in time, was simply a celebrated, routine rite of passage in our election process—the presidential debates--was converted Tuesday night by Donald Trump into a vehicle to attack the very foundations of our 244 year-old democracy.
- "President Trump’s angry insistence in the last minutes of Tuesday’s debate that there was no way the presidential election could be conducted without fraud amounted to an extraordinary declaration by a sitting American president that he would try to throw any outcome into the courts, Congress or the streets if he was not re-elected. His comments came after four years of debate about the possibility of foreign interference in the 2020 election and how to counter such disruptions. But they were a stark reminder that the most direct threat to the electoral process now comes from the president of the United States himself." -
What occurred Tuesday night, according to Sanger’s analysis, was not simply Trump denigrating our elections in an attempt to sow doubt about their legitimacy, but a curiously transparent appropriation of what Russian “president” Vladimir Putin has sought to accomplish in his efforts to destabilize our own, as well as European democracies, over the past twenty years:
“[Trump’s] unwillingness to say he would abide by the result, and his disinformation campaign about the integrity of the American electoral system, went beyond anything President Vladimir V. Putin could have imagined. All Mr. Putin has to do now is amplify the president’s message, which the Russian leader has already begun to do"...
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/30/1982113/-U-S-intelligence-agencies-see-Trump-s-debate-tactics-as-a-clear-signal-to-Putin-NYTimes
- NYT, 'Tuesday's Debate Made Clear The Gravest Threat To The Election: The President Himself,' Sept. 30, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/trump-debate-election.html
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