CNN analyst Samantha Vinograd said Tuesday that President Trump is playing into Russia’s interests by attacking “unbiased” institutions like America’s intelligence community.
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Vinograd, appearing on CNN’s “Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer,” said, “This plays again into the broader point that this is what Russia wanted to see happen. The Director of National Intelligence assessed back in January that Russia interfered in the election to try to undermine confidence in our democracy as part of their ongoing efforts. Again, this is nothing new, to degrade confidence in the U.S.-led liberal democratic order.”
She continued, “So what we’re seeing is every key institution in our democracy, our legal system, the intelligence community that supports out policymaking, that is unbiased and independent is being attacked by the president and that’s exactly playing into Russia’s interests. The only interests that it serves is Russia’s, it does not serve our own.” (RELATED: CNN Guest: National Security Strategy Can’t Be ‘Divorced From Reality’ [VIDEO])
Wolf Blitzer replied, “He goes after the news media as well.”