Trump Is Losing the New Cold War
The president has not acknowledged the intelligence failures that occurred during the 2016 election, nor has he sought to fix them. The result: Russia is winning.
For the past six months, I’ve been quietly asking current and former counterintelligence professionals, “Who is making sure Russia doesn't undermine our democracy?” The answer has always been the same: “I don’t know, but I hope somebody is.” But since President Donald Trump refuses to acknowledge Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, I'm not sure anybody is.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe is heating up. And the potential criminal charges against the president and his team has become the biggest story in the country. That’s partly because Trump is so polarizing. But the criminal probe and the growing public anger won’t do anything to stop the wider threat posed
