“The Trump administration this week eliminated much of the federal government’s front line of defense against foreign interference in U.S. elections,” the Washington Post reports.
“The move, which follows years of Trump and his allies disputing the role that Russian influence campaigns played in his first successful bid for president, alarmed state election officials and election security experts, who warned that safeguarding Americans from foreign disinformation campaigns will be difficult if no one at the federal level is doing that work.
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