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What We’re Following
The Russia Investigation: New reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions knew about two Trump campaign advisers’ outreach to Russia—and in one case, tried to stop it—cast doubt on Sessions’s confirmation-hearing testimony that he wasn’t aware of any such communications. The recent reports also seem to contradict President Trump’s own comments at a February press conference, when he dismissed questions about his team’s Russian contacts as “fake news.” Even aside from what campaign officials may have known, the evidence that Russian agents used the internet to interfere with the 2016 presidential election is mounting—and so is the publicly available information about how they did it.
President Trump tweeted that the Islamic State “will pay a big. He also used Twitter to , despite acknowledging in a recent interview that “because I am the president of the United States, I am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department.” But as powerful as Trump’s online platform may seem, a Twitter employee downed the president’s account for 11 minutes on Thursday night, illustrating .
