trump tries to get ukraine to meddle the 2020 election

In steps Grenell, who has no intelligence background but has made it clear he will aggressively push Trump’s line. In addition to his influence over the information the president receives, though, the DNI can also influence what information is shared and collected elsewhere within the government-and, often, what reaches Congress and the public.

The DNI is the principal intelligence adviser to the president and serves as the intelligence community’s main liaison to the commander in chief. And removing or at least weakening the intelligence community’s resistance by installing a partisan director would potentially help Trump in his efforts to rewrite the facts around Russia’s meddling.

As my colleague McKay Coppins has reported, Trump’s campaign will rely on a billion-dollar effort to bombard the electorate with not just standard political ads but disinformation. The Ukraine scandal centered on his efforts to get its president to announce an investigation into discredited allegations about Joe Biden, then the Democratic front-runner, in hopes of legitimizing the claims about Biden and weakening his candidacy. It’s clear that controlling the narrative will be central to Trump’s reelection campaign.

Trump tries to get ukraine to meddle the 2020 election