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Jimmy Kimmel Live: China & Russia Listening to Trump's Personal Calls
According to the New York Times, Chinese and Russian spies regularly listen in on Trump's personal phone calls. Trump still calls his friends on his personal phone despite numerous warnings from his staff that they are not secure. Trump tweeted about the story claiming that he rarely uses a cellphone, but something in his tweet proved that that wasn't the case at all.
Russian Trolls Reveal How They Interfere with Elections
The Russians are still hard at work trying to interfere with the midterm elections and federal prosecutors unsealed the indictment of the ringleader behind this. It was a Russian troll who ran a multi-million-dollar operation to create fake Twitter accounts and promote divisive posts on social media. She hired an army of Russians to pretend to be Americans by posting about topics that get us especially riled up and set up a special school to train them on how to do it.
