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The top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees said they are working under the presumption that the president will seek to justify election interference by alleging fraud. n.pr/4yEuVW7

n.prTop 2 Democrats on Intel say they're preparing for Trump to claim foreign meddlingThe top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees said they are working under the presumption that the president will seek to justify election interference by alleging fraud.

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This election will be under assault from all possible directions, before, on election day, and after, up to Jan. 3 when the new congress should be sworn in, and possibly beyond that.

The 2020 precedent behind that presumption: a draft executive order carried into the Oval Office on Dec. 18, 2020 would have directed the military to seize voting machines. White House lawyers fought it for six hours, and it was never signed.

"But he suggested that the responsibility to protect democracy is much broader than good governance groups and lawmakers themselves, and extends to the press and the public at large." I miss the days when the press was unafraid.

Let's point out that this regime has weakened the nation's agencies whose job was to warn and protect against foreign interference in our elections. But then, bank robbers would also love to reduce the number of guards before robbing the bank.