{"id":2207,"date":"2018-01-30T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/30\/trump-and-republicans-fail-to-defend-our-democracy\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:00:00","slug":"trump-and-republicans-fail-to-defend-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-and-republicans-fail-to-defend-our-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump And Republicans Fail To Defend Our Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday once again proved that Trump and congressional Republicans cannot be trusted to defend our democracy or protect our country&rsquo;s national security.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump refused to implement congressionally mandated sanctions against Russia, which were passed in the House by a vote of 419-3 and in the Senate 98-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/rich-russians-still-waiting-to-exhale\/2018\/01\/29\/7df459ca-052a-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html?utm_term=.42370ef3d3ca\">Washington Post<\/a>: &ldquo;The Trump administration, under fire from lawmakers for not punishing Moscow over election meddling, <strong>said Monday it will not implement Russia-related sanctions mandated by Congress<\/strong> last year because the threat itself is acting as a &lsquo;deterrent.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/senate-joins-house-overwhelmingly-passing-new-russian-sanctions-n787291\">NBC News<\/a>: &ldquo;The Senate overwhelmingly voted Thursday to impose new sanctions on Russia, joining the House in approving the measure by veto-proof margins. The vote on the bill &mdash; which would also add sanctions against North Korea and Iran &mdash; was <strong>98-2<\/strong>, with only Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., dissenting. The House passed the measure on Tuesday by <strong>419-3<\/strong>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just before the White House announced Trump&rsquo;s refusal to implement sanctions, Trump&rsquo;s own CIA director warned that Russia would try and attack our democracy again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-42864372\">BBC<\/a>: &ldquo;Even though there has been co-operation in counter-terrorism (the CIA helped stop a plot in St Petersburg last year), Mr Pompeo says he still sees Russia primarily as an adversary, sharing the concerns in many European countries about its subversion. &lsquo;I haven&#39;t seen a significant decrease in their activity,&rsquo; he said. <strong>Asked if his concerns extended to the upcoming US mid-term elections in November, he replied: &lsquo;Of course. I have every expectation that they will continue to try and do that<\/strong>, but I&#39;m confident that America will be able to have a free and fair election [and] that we will push back in a way that is sufficiently robust that the impact they have on our election won&#39;t be great.&rsquo;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, House Republicans continued their campaign to tarnish and discredit the FBI and Special Counsel&rsquo;s investigations by deciding in a partisan vote to release Devin Nunes&rsquo; memo, and not the memo from Democrats correcting their dishonest attempts to twist the facts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/01\/29\/politics\/house-intelligence-committee-devin-nunes-memo\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: &ldquo;<strong>The House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines Monday to publicly release a classified memo written by Republicans<\/strong> alleging FBI abuses in the agency&#39;s surveillance, an aggressive move that could feed a GOP push to undercut special counsel Robert Mueller&#39;s investigation and ratchets up a battle with the Justice Department. &hellip; <strong>Bu<\/strong>t <strong>in another party-line vote, the committee voted against making a competing Democratic memo from Rep. Adam Schiff of California available as well<\/strong>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the same mysterious memo that Russian bots campaigned to be released and Trump&rsquo;s own Justice Department warned would be &ldquo;extraordinarily reckless.&rdquo; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/nunes-memo-donald-trump-intelligence-release-793571\">Newsweek<\/a>: &ldquo;The question now becomes whether the memo will ever be released publicly. <strong>The DOJ warned Nunes that releasing the memo to the public would be &lsquo;extremely reckless,&rsquo;<\/strong> but that won&#39;t stop Nunes if he wants to make the document public.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/release-memo-russian-bots-campaign-democrats-789317\">Newsweek<\/a>: &ldquo;Top congressional Democrats have asked Facebook and Twitter to investigate whether <strong>Russian bots and trolls helped spur an online campaign to release a controversial classified memo <\/strong>that some Republicans say shows bias in the FBI&#39;s Trump-Russian probe. The hashtag &lsquo;#ReleaseTheMemo&rsquo; exploded on Twitter last Thursday, according to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan national security group tracking 600 Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday once again proved that Trump and congressional Republicans cannot be trusted to defend our democracy or protect our country&rsquo;s national security. &nbsp; Trump refused to implement congressionally mandated sanctions against Russia, which were passed in the House by a vote of 419-3 and in the Senate 98-2. &nbsp; Washington Post: &ldquo;The Trump administration, under <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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