«Breaking News» Trump signs executive order to punish countries or people who try to interfere in the elections

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would allow his administration to target individuals or nations who seek to interfere in U.S. elections, sending a signal to Russia and others following efforts to meddle in his own election.

The order comes two months before Americans go to the polls in elections that will determine control of Congress, potentially dramatically reshaping the balance of power in Washington.

The sanctions would target not just foreign meddling in physical election infrastructure, but propaganda and other tactics, following efforts by a Kremlin-backed outfit use Facebook and other social media to try to create divisions and affect public opinion.

Presdient Donald Trump signed an executive order on election interference

'We felt it was important to demonstrate the president is taking command of this issue,' said Trump's national security advisor John Bolton on a call with reporters.

'That It's something he cares deeply about that the integrity of our elections and our constitutional process are a high priority to him,' Bolton said.

Trump's order states: 'I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the ability of persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. 

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told reporters on a call organized by the White House that the ongoing threat is 'only a keyboard click away.'  

But he said: 'We have not seen the intensity of what happened in 2016,' when the U.S. intelligence community determined there was a Russian-backed effort.

'We felt it was important to demonstrate the president is taking command of this issue,' said Trump's national security advisor John Bolton on a call with reporters.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said, 'We have seen signsnot just Russia, but from China, from - capabilities potentially from Iran and even North Korea. So the others, do incorporate - it's more than Russia here that we're looking at'

Added Coats: 'We have seen signs of not just Russia, but from China, from - capabilities potentially from Iran and even North Korea. So the others, do incorporate - it's more than Russia here that we're looking at.'

Senate Intelligence Committee co-chair Mark Warner of Virginia immediately cast the executive order of insufficient due to the waiver authority provided to the executive branch, saying Trump cant be trusted to 'stand up' to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

'While the administration has yet to share the full text, an executive order that inevitably leaves the president broad discretion to decide whether to impose tough sanctions against those who attack our democracy is insufficient,' Warner said in a statement after the order was first announced. 

'Unfortunately, President Trump demonstrated in Helsinki and elsewhere that he simply cannot be counted upon to stand up to Putin when it matters,' Warner said.

Under the order, the intelligence community would have 45 days to determine whether meddling occurred. It would then turn over a report to officials in the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security, who would then make their own determination.

'This clearly is a process put in place to try to assure that we are doing every possible thing we can to first of all prevent any interference in our election,' said Coats.

The sanctions themselves range from blocked assets, export licenses, access to banking and lending, credit transfers, or U.S. investors, according to Bolton. The text of the order has not yet been released.  

Coats declined to state directly whether Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who visits Moscow this week, was carrying an additional message about Russian meddling. Bolton delivered his own stern public warning in August after meeting his Russian counterpart.

'I'm not going to address why Secretary Perry is in Moscow. I think Department of Energy has made a clear statement of what his function there is,' he said when asked by DailyMail.com about the high-level visit, the first since Trump's Helsinki Summit.

Coats also declined to say whether he has yet received a full briefing of what Trump and Putin discussed in their one-on-one meeting, after telling reporters at the White House last month he was not in a position to 'fully understand' what happened there.

'Relative to anything that the president and I discuss in the Oval Office, or anywhere that is just something that I don't discuss on a public basis,' Coats said when asked directly about it.

 

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