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riversedge

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Wed Apr 24, 2019, 08:54 AM Apr 2019

In Push for 2020 Election Security, Top Official Was Warned: Don't Tell Trump [View all]

Source: nytimes





April 24, 2019

WASHINGTON — In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities as homeland security secretary: preparing for new and different Russian forms of interference in the 2020 election.

President Trump’s chief of staff told her not to bring it up in front of the president.

Ms. Nielsen left the Department of Homeland Security early this month after a tumultuous 16-month tenure and tensions with the White House. Officials said she had become increasingly concerned about Russia’s continued activity in the United States during and after the 2018 midterm elections — ranging from its search for new techniques to divide Americans using social media, to experiments by hackers, to rerouting internet traffic and infiltrating power grids.

But in a meeting this year, Mick Mulvaney, the White House chief of staff, made it clear that Mr. Trump still equated any public discussion of malign Russian election activity with questions about the legitimacy of his victory. According to one senior administration official, Mr. Mulvaney said it “wasn’t a great subject and should be kept below his level.”

Even though the Department of Homeland Security has primary responsibility for civilian cyberdefense, Ms. Nielsen eventually gave up on her effort to organize a White House meeting of cabinet secretaries to coordinate a strategy to protect next year’s elections.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/us/politics/russia-2020-election-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage






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So...we're wide open bc trumps ego could'nt handle the truth, he already knew? Chin music Apr 2019 #1
We need to hammer home the message that we can't depend on a shadow gldstwmn Apr 2019 #13
He's a sympathizer. Chin music Apr 2019 #17
How was Don Jr. not indicted? I want to think gldstwmn Apr 2019 #18
I absolutely think that was the deal. Chin music Apr 2019 #19
Agreed. We also need to address the Mitch McConnell situation. gldstwmn Apr 2019 #20
2 guys subverting 340 million of us. Chin music Apr 2019 #21
This! Roy Rolling Apr 2019 #2
And those foreigners are making him rich. Chin music Apr 2019 #7
Won't starting impeachment hearings orangecrush Apr 2019 #3
No. His Russian troll army would shift into high gear. Your assumption has no factual basis. Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2019 #5
Is it ok to base it on what trump and his family did? Chin music Apr 2019 #8
CNN had an article on their website this gldstwmn Apr 2019 #14
Thanks orangecrush Apr 2019 #23
So where was Nielsen's OpEd exposing this about the WH when she was in office? Where is she now? nt in2herbs Apr 2019 #4
Right. She swore an oath. HOMELAND SECURITY no less. Chin music Apr 2019 #9
That whole department needs to be dismantled gldstwmn Apr 2019 #15
Wartime relic. It's redundant. Chin music Apr 2019 #16
Yea, that's the ticket. Don't do your job because it might upet Trump. vsrazdem Apr 2019 #6
If Homeland Security can't do their job...why are we paying them? Chin music Apr 2019 #10
++ vsrazdem Apr 2019 #11
+++ Chin music Apr 2019 #12
We have the GOP in congress obstructing everything also. yet, they get paid also. riversedge Apr 2019 #24
Right. We need to work on that too. Heh heh. Chin music Apr 2019 #25
Even his own people don't trust him Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2019 #22
His fragile ego is killing the US captain queeg Apr 2019 #26
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