{"id":81037,"date":"2018-08-07T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81037"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:15","slug":"secretary-mattis-and-election-tampering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81037","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Mattis and election tampering."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Press has been going on about the Trump Administration denying Russians were involved in election tampering.\u00a0 From Military Times article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe all saw what happened in 2016 when the Russians, and possibly others, but the Russians for certain tried to do both influence operations and actually get in and corrupt some of the election process,\u201d Mattis told reporters Tuesday during a Pentagon ceremony for British Secretary of State for Defense Gavin Williamson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Moreso, in line with what the\u00a0intelligence community\u00a0has concluded, Mattis said: \u201cI believe it is official Russian support” for the meddling. \u201cHowever, that is not exclusive. There\u2019s also other activities that went on that perhaps are not directly ascribed to the official Russia. But we watch for all of it and we can trace at least parts of it back to the Russian government.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

and then later in the article:<\/p>\n

However, after\u00a0intense public criticism\u00a0following similar comments during his summit last month with Putin in Finland, Trump said: \u201cI accept our intelligence community\u2019s conclusion that Russia\u2019s meddling in the 2016 election took place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Secretary Mattis goes on to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are focused on protecting the elections themselves,\u201d Mattis said. “So we\u2019re looking at both this influence peddling and the corrupting, the violating the integrity of the elections, and those activities are in direct support of law enforcement and Department of Homeland Security. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I just wanted to put that somewhere I can easily find it.\u00a0 Of course the Russians tried to alter the elections, every election, for many decades.\u00a0 I can also report that their efforts did not sway my selection for any office, particularly the Oval Office.\u00a0 I don’t know anyone who did change their mind because of it.\u00a0 I have enough Russian meddling to deal with as it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Press has been going on about the Trump Administration denying Russians were involved in election … Secretary Mattis and election tampering.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}