Take comments about foreign election interference literally and seriously

June 14, 2019, 8:16 PM EDT
By Evan McMullin

... despite criticism of the fact that neither he nor his campaign reported any of the Russians’ various offers of assistance in 2016 to the FBI, Trump now suggests he’d do it all over again. “The FBI director is wrong,” Trump said, refuting Christopher Wray’s May statement that the FBI would want to know if a foreign power offered assistance to a U.S. campaign.

Wray was not the only one to weigh in. Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub issued a statement noting that "Electoral intervention from foreign governments has been unacceptable since the beginnings of our nation."

Trump saying differently is at best astonishingly ignorant and, more realistically, a national betrayal ...

... Trump is sending a clear message to foreign nations looking for opportunities to trade political favors. He's also normalizing the idea of foreign interference with his base, whose support he’ll need to maintain if the president’s foreign backing continues through potential impeachment proceedings and 2020 ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/america-must-take-trump-s-comments-about-foreign-election-interference-ncna1017836