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Вчера в Белом доме под председательством Трампа прошло совещание по поводу российского вмешательство в выборы в Конгресс в этом году. Совещание продолжалось от силы полчаса и закончилось ничем.

“It was a good meeting,” said one senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an event that was closed to media coverage. “Everybody was on the same page. We’re doing a lot of good work across the administration.’’
There was no discussion of new actions Trump wants or of a coordinated strategy to prevent Russia from interfering in U.S. politics, officials said. Instead, the meeting focused on the activities undertaken so far.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/trump-chairs-election-security-meeting-but-gives-no-new-orders-to-repel-russian-interference/2018/07/27/ebf85f50-91b8-11e8-8322-b5482bf5e0f5_story.html

Cabinet officials and others invited to today's NSC meeting on election security are leaving White House now. The meeting was set to start at 3 pm. If it started as scheduled, the president's meeting on election security was less than 30 minutes.

— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) July 27, 2018

Возможно, вопрос удастся поднять во время предстоящего визита в Москву.

“President Trump looks forward to having President Putin to Washington after the first of the year, and he is open to visiting Moscow upon receiving a formal invitation,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia/trump-open-to-visiting-moscow-after-putin-invite-white-house-idUSKBN1KH1WW

Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017

Между тем хакерским атакам ГРУ подверглись избирательные кампании двух демократических сенаторов, в том числе Клэр Маккэскилл из Миссури.

The Russian intelligence agency behind the 2016 election cyberattacks targeted Sen. Claire McCaskill as she began her 2018 re-election campaign in earnest, a Daily Beast forensic analysis reveals. That makes the Missouri Democrat the first identified target of the Kremlin’s 2018 election interference.
McCaskill, who has been highly critical of Russia over the years, is widely considered to be among the most vulnerable Senate Democrats facing re-election this year as Republicans hope to hold their slim majority in the Senate. In 2016, President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by almost 20 points in the senator’s home state of Missouri.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-hackers-new-target-a-vulnerable-democratic-senator

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В этом свете имеет смысл посмотреть ещё раз разговор Маккэскилл с бывшим директором АНБ, генералом Роджерсом на февральских слушаниях в Сенате.

I never thought I'd see the day that Russia would go after the heart of our country. Ever. And that we would be sitting here parsing words about whether or not we've got this. I want somebody with your experience and your courage and your tenacity -- I want somebody to sit in that chair and say to the United States of America, "We've got this." And until we have that moment, Russia is winning. And that is disgusting.
https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/18-17_02-27-18.pdf

Согласно последним опросам, в борьбе за сохранение своего места в Сенате Маккэскилл ведёт с преимуществом в 1%.
https://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/senate/mo/missouri_senate_hawley_vs_mccaskill-6280.html
Пожертвовать деньги на ее избирательную кампанию можно здесь: https://clairemccaskill.com/