{"id":12644,"date":"2018-01-30T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/connecting-the-dots\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T19:20:00","slug":"connecting-the-dots","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/vi\/articles\/connecting-the-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the Dots"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12644","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"The president and his allies are running what looks like a cover-up","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[149,169,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p>Connecting the dots on a few of Monday&rsquo;s news items in advance of tonight&rsquo;s State of the Union speech. These are things you <strong>WON&rsquo;T<\/strong> hear about from President Trump.<\/p><ul><li>CIA Director Mike Pompeo declared that Russian operatives are continuing their work to influence elections around the world, including this year&rsquo;s U.S. congressional contests.<\/li><li>The Trump administration announced that it will not impose congressionally-mandated sanctions intended to punish Russia&rsquo;s meddling in the 2016 election,<\/li><li>White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that &ldquo;poll after poll says that frankly no one cares&rdquo; about Russia&rsquo;s interference in the 2016 election and special counsel Robert Mueller&rsquo;s investigation of whether the Trump campaign was aware of or participated in it.<\/li><li>The House Intelligence Committee split along partisan lines in voting to release a classified, Republican-written report that is said to accuse people inside the FBI of conspiring to undermine the president. The committee&rsquo;s Republican majority declined to release a Democratic counter-report.<\/li><\/ul><p>Put all that together and what emerges looks more-than-suspiciously like a coverup on behalf of the president and the Russian government.<\/p><p>While the nation&rsquo;s spy services &ndash; now headed by a Trump appointee &ndash; continue to insist that Russia ran a covert campaign to disrupt our last election and intends to do it again, the president is giving Russia a pass and waving off the threat of future election interference.<\/p><p>In the White House press room, the president&rsquo;s spokeswoman trivializes serious inquiries about the Russian campaign and ridicules the journalists who pose them. On Capitol Hill, the president&rsquo;s allies have ginned up and plan to release a report that seems designed to discredit the Mueller investigation and are suppressing a Democratic-written rebuttal.<\/p><p>Only a few months ago, Russia&rsquo;s bad acts were so apparent to lawmakers that sanctions legislation was supported by all but five of Congress&rsquo; 535 members. Now, Republican congressional leaders are all-but-silent in response to Trump&rsquo;s refusal to follow through and actually punish Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s government.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, contrary to Sarah Sanders&rsquo;s assertion, it&rsquo;s apparent that a lot of people care about what Russia did and think Trump is at least complicit in it. A new Washington Post\/ABC News poll indicates that about half of Americans believe that the Trump campaign cooperated with Russia&rsquo;s election meddling in 2016; almost as many think the president is trying to obstruct Mueller&rsquo;s investigation.<\/p><p>The weight of the evidence suggests those people have it right.<\/p><p>###<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Connecting the Dots - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/vi\/bai-viet-2\/connecting-the-dots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"vi_VN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Connecting the Dots\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/vi\/bai-viet-2\/connecting-the-dots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/connecting-the-dots\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/connecting-the-dots\/\",\"name\":\"Connecting the Dots - 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