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Even Trump’s Own Adviser Is Warning About ‘Politicizing’ the Threat From Russia

But the danger he sees is already here.
Source: Maxim Shemetov / Reuters

On Tuesday—hours after Donald Trump yet again whether Russia intervened in the 2016 U.S. election the investigation into that interference by “disgraced and discredited Bob Mueller and his … Angry Democrat Thugs” as a “Rigged Witch Hunt”—a top official in the Trump administration issued a stark warning about the peril of politicizing the threat from Vladimir Putin. Nothing less than American democracy itself is

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