When recently asked by ABC's George Stephanopoulos what he would do if presented with foreign opposition research, President Trump responded: "I think you might want to listen. I don't - there's nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country - Norway - 'We have information on your opponent' - oh, I think I'd want to hear it."
It's hardly a surprise that Trump lacks deftness when navigating the conventions of Washington.
Everyone in the Beltway already knows that you don't listen to foreign opposition research.
This is what the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign did when they paid research firm Fusion GPS and former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele to compile a dossier of uncorroborated raw "Intelligence" - some of it derived from Kremlin sources - that fueled allegations that their opponent was colluding with a foreign power to steal the presidential election in 2016.
We do know that Democrats relied on foreign opposition research to cultivate a national freakout over the election.
Tone-deaf Trump's comments to Stephanopoulos might have been, the awkward fact is that Democrats were far more successful at using Russian disinformation around the 2016 election.
Now, it's also almost certain that the president's answer to Stephanopoulos' question was influenced by Donald Trump Jr.'s infamous Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya, who had claimed to have dirt on Clinton.
https://nypost.com/2019/06/17/anti-trump-dossier-was-all-about-foreign-interference-in-a-us-election/
It's hardly a surprise that Trump lacks deftness when navigating the conventions of Washington.
Everyone in the Beltway already knows that you don't listen to foreign opposition research.
This is what the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign did when they paid research firm Fusion GPS and former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele to compile a dossier of uncorroborated raw "Intelligence" - some of it derived from Kremlin sources - that fueled allegations that their opponent was colluding with a foreign power to steal the presidential election in 2016.
We do know that Democrats relied on foreign opposition research to cultivate a national freakout over the election.
Tone-deaf Trump's comments to Stephanopoulos might have been, the awkward fact is that Democrats were far more successful at using Russian disinformation around the 2016 election.
Now, it's also almost certain that the president's answer to Stephanopoulos' question was influenced by Donald Trump Jr.'s infamous Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya, who had claimed to have dirt on Clinton.
https://nypost.com/2019/06/17/anti-trump-dossier-was-all-about-foreign-interference-in-a-us-election/
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