It appears that if Donald Trump is elected president, many world leaders, including the leaders of the Western European countries, will freeze out the US from intelligence and security decisions, because they have learned that they can’t trust Trump’s ability to manage or handle intelligence, and recognize that he will be Putin’s puppet.<\/p>\n
In phone calls, meetings and cables, America\u2019s European allies have expressed alarm to one another about Donald Trump\u2019s public statements denying Moscow\u2019s role in cyberattacks designed to interfere with the U.S. election. They fear the Republican nominee for president has emboldened the Kremlin in its unprecedented cybercampaign to disrupt elections in multiple countries in hopes of weakening Western alliances, according to intelligence, law enforcement and other government officials in the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n
While American intelligence officers have privately briefed Trump about Russia\u2019s attempts to influence the U.S. election, he has publicly dismissed that information as unreliable, instead saying this hacking of incredible sophistication and technical complexity could have been done by some 400-pound \u201cguy sitting on their bed\u201d or even a child.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is a breaking story at Newsweek, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Maddow discussed the story here:<\/p>\n