Trumps silence on Russian hacking hands Democrats new weapon

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/17/trump-russia-hacking-silence-democrats-239656

By CORY BENNETT at Politico

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And while the White House received bipartisan praise for a cybersecurity executive order Trump signed in May, administration officials said the directive is aimed at broadly upgrading the government’s digital defenses, not thwarting future Russian election hacking.

Instead, Trump tapped a commission led by Vice President Mike Pence to investigate an issue that elections experts call vastly overblown — voter fraud, something the the president has baselessly alleged resulted in millions of illegal voters casting ballots for Hillary Clinton in November.

“There doesn’t seem to be a recognition of the seriousness of this threat” from Russia, said Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, during a hearing this past week. “We have to hear from the administration how they’re going to take that on.”

“There has been little sign of consequences so far from the Trump White House,” Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, said on the Senate floor Wednesday night.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. He continues to remind us daily how unfit he is to serve as president. Apparently protecting the US

is not his responsibility. We saw President Obama taking action in sanctions on Russia before he left office plus expelling Russians from the US.