Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
“Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected,” the New York Times reports.
Trump complained “that Democrats would use it against him” and led him to “berate Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place.”
The Washington Post first reported the Oval Office confrontation between Trump and Maguire.
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