The Trump campaign wouldn't say whether it has a policy about foreign interference, including the use of information stolen or hacked by a foreign power
FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday that if any 2020 presidential campaign is contacted by a foreign agent, it’s “something the FBI would want to know about.”
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report documented “numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign,” and argued that Trump’s campaign “expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.” But Mueller found no criminal conspiracy between the campaign and the Kremlin, and Trump allies insist there was nothing unlawful about soliciting or making use of information provided by a hostile nation.
Some Trump defenders say that his 2016 campaign was a ragtag, amateurish enterprise plagued by a combination of naivete and ignorance that Russia successfully exploited. But even though his 2020 re-election operation has come to resemble a traditional presidential campaign, it has proved reluctant to address the persistent threat of foreign interference.
In House testimony on Tuesday, Wray told lawmakers his agency wants to know if a foreign government offers assistance to a presidential campaign in any form, be it opposition research, stolen material, or signal boosting on social media.
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