President Donald Trump’s elections legislation remains stalled in Congress. But his Thursday night primetime address contained hints of where he might take his whole-of-government approach to asserting control over American elections.
The president pointed to a trove of newly declassified documents as proof that American elections are at risk from foreign influence and that the infrastructure they rely on is vulnerable to hacking. He furthermore characterized his own intelligence community as purposefully withholding information about Chinese efforts to influence elections.
The documents, some of which remain heavily redacted, tread on…
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