Is Trump inviting more foreign election meddling?

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President Trump has gone from "no collusion" to "pro collusion," said Susan Glasser at The New Yorker. In a stunning admission to ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, Trump said that he'd accept a foreign government's offer of dirt on his political opponents in the 2020 election. "There's nothing wrong with listening," Trump said. "If somebody called from a country [like] Norway [saying], ‘We have information on your opponent.' Oh, I think I'd want to hear it." Trump expressed ambivalence about notifying the FBI and challenged FBI Director Christopher Wray's recent statement that the bureau should be told if a campaign were contacted by a foreign power trying to influence an election. "The FBI director is wrong," Trump said. It was bad enough when Trump publicly invited Russian operatives to meddle in the 2016 campaign by asking them to find Hillary Clinton's deleted emails, said Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post. But now Trump is "declaring his intent to repeat the very same conduct" that led to two years of investigation. Our commander in chief just told us that he "is willing to betray his country to win re-election."

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