The Russian inquiry was causing some serious issues for Republicans and Democrats. It seemed like the entire political sphere was being disrupted.
Robert Mueller pressed on with his investigations and seemed keen on delivering a blow to Trump. Trump continued to deny any Russian collusion and pushed for investigations into Hillary Clinton.
More charges were brought against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. It was believed that the purpose of this move was to get Manafort to release any information on Trump.
Then there was the memo by Devin Nunes and the one from Democrats. Nunes memo was quickly accepted while the Democrats had a hard time getting theirs signed off by Trump.
American intelligence suggested that Russia interfered with American politics and continued to do so.
Russian Tactics
A former special agent in charge of the Special Operations/Cyber Division of the FBI’s New York office made some comments regarding Russia. Leo Taddeo believed that Russia was and remained a problem.
“I think it’s fairly clear the Russians have a cheap and effective way to sow discord and confusion and really undermined the basic principles of democracy,” Taddeo said. “It really wouldn’t matter what the issue was, as long as people were disagreeing.”
“They’re going to target whatever makes people passionate, whatever will get them out. And they’re going to try to amplify that disagreement and create the kind of division that creates a distraction from America focusing on what Russia thinks is important – things like Ukraine and other foreign policy issues,” he said.
