New US intel report shows Russia, Trump and GOP acolytes have same goals

[TomCADem]

Source: CNN

A new US intelligence report that finds Russia interfered in the 2020 election to help Donald Trump and hurt Joe Biden also underscores a fundamental truth: The gravest threat to US democracy comes from within.

The report, released by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, finds that Moscow sought to inject misleading information about Biden into the campaign through officials and others close to Trump.

The real bombshell it contains is not the confidence of the spy agencies that Russia hoped to subvert American democracy. It is that US intelligence experts effectively confirmed that for the second election in a row, Trump acolytes repeatedly used, knowingly or otherwise, misinformation produced by the spies of one of America's most sworn foreign adversaries to try to win a US election.

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For all of the stale US debate about whether Trump and his aides "colluded" with Russia, there are now multiple reports, intelligence assessments and other known details to expose a damning reality: Moscow with its election meddling, Trump acolytes pushing false claims of voter fraud and his GOP supporters in the states now passing voter suppression laws share the same goal -- the denigration of the US democratic system.

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The biggest change under Trump was how openly Republicans and right wing media have come to embrace and echo Russian disinformation efforts trying to spread division and racial unrest, as well as raising questions about the integrity of elections.

[KPN]

1. How will we ever as a nation recover and move forward from this without holding at least key

participants in this stuff accountable? Legal definitions be damned. This was treason. This was a deliberate attempt to undermine the foundation of our Constitutional governance -- democracy.

I think we are fooling ourselves if we think we can heal without real accountability. Hell, we haven't healed from the Civil War. The Confederates have consistently sought to bend our Constitution and laws to their purpose and benefit ever since. We need to use our Constitution and laws to hold the people who seek to undermine and contort them accountable now. If the past is an indicator, we will only continue to suffer continued assaults against our democracy if we do not.