The dust on the Russian interference of the 2016 presidential election has not yet settled as America faces another interference in the 2020 election. Who would believe that almost 4 years later, and with just about three months to go for the 2020 election Russia would be a factor in the November election?
That Russia could pull off one of the biggest political scams on America and is back again to do so in the 2020 election is a sign of how America has been badly compromised. What is alarming about this is that this compromise has been facilitated internally by the White House, the Republican Congress, and conservative media.
Somehow it seems like Americans have become catatonic and Donald Trump is taking full advantage of this. When this story about the Russian bounty scandal broke, Trump denied that he was briefed about it by the intelligence agency. What was more alarming about this scandal where Russia was paying the Taliban a bounty fee to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan, was that Trump remained silent and did not confront Putin about it.
Instead of telling the American people how he was going to deal with the Russian bounty situation, Trump had the audacity and perhaps contempt for Americans by announcing that one of his recent coronavirus press conference that he spoke to Pres. Putin on the phone. Remarkably, not one of the journalists ask him if he had confronted Putin on the Russian bounty scandal.
The intelligence agency earlier this week reported that Russia was planning to interfere with the 2020 election. No doubt Putin was emboldened by the failure of America to do anything about the 2016 interference and bite the deep political division in the country. When Trump was asked about this new information at his press conference yesterday, he downplayed it by saying China, Iran, and other countries were doing the same thing.
The interference that Russia is engaged in for the 2020 election is not similar to what they did in the 2016 election. This time it is with the announcement that they have developed a vaccine for COVID-19 and that it would be ready by the end of September. Regardless if this is true or not, Trump is going to benefit from this news. In fact, it may be the biggest help he will get in his floundering 2020 campaign.
Trump is going to embrace the Russian vaccine and make preposterous claims about it. Just like how he said that if Biden wins the election, “China will own us,” he is going to say that Russia will only help the US with the vaccine if he wins the election.
Americans should not fall for the Russian vaccine ploy to influence the 2020 election. Trump has expose himself with the failure to manage the coronavirus effectively and he has shown that he is willing to undermine America’s democracy at any cost. For these reasons, four more years of Donald Trump in the White House will be disastrous for America and instead of China owning us Russia will own us.