Despite attacks by President Trump and his allies on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the investigation he is leading, a new survey shows the public believes Russia meddled in the 2016 election, is concerned about it, and is prepared to support Trump’s impeachment if the investigation produces evidence of illegality. […] Read more »
Trump may owe his 2016 victory to ‘fake news,’ new study suggests
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton concedes the 2016 presidential election. AP Photo/Matt Rourke Richard Gunther, The Ohio State University; Erik C. Nisbet, The Ohio State University, and Paul Beck, The Ohio State University Could “fake news” have helped determine the outcome of the 2016 presidential election? Social media users and intensely […] Read more »
Russian trolls went on attack during key election moments
Thousands of Russian trolls targeted national events during the 2016 U.S. presidential election to infiltrate the online conversations of millions of Americans, according to a new analysis of a database of recovered troll tweets by NBC News. The records show how digital communications tools invented by U.S. companies, such as […] Read more »
Why Democrats And Republicans Did A Sudden 180 On The FBI
President Trump is weighing allowing the release of the second of two memos addressing allegations of improper conduct by the FBI. The latest classified memo, drafted by Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, allegedly defends the agency in a rebuttal to a memo that was […] Read more »
More Russians are sure of the U.S. meddling in their politics than the other way around, poll finds
Following allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, a majority of Americans believe the Russian government tries to influence domestic U.S. politics, according to polling data released Wednesday. But polling conducted around the same time in Russia suggests that an even larger majority of Russians believe that Washington is […] Read more »
The Nunes memo is looking like a bust for Trump
If President Trump was looking for the Nunes memo to be a silver bullet that would undermine the Russia investigation, he’d better keep looking. A new Quinnipiac University poll — the first full high-quality poll conducted almost completely after the Nunes memo’s release Friday — shows very little change in […] Read more »