US intelligence officials are watching for any influence campaigns from Russia or China that are aimed at amplifying existing political divisions or stoking unrest among Americans over the indictment of fmr. President Trump, according to two US officials.
But after Trump’s arraignment Tuesday, one of the officials said the intelligence community is watching “very closely” for any signs of such interference.
A U.S. official said there is continuing talk of Trump in Russian and Chinese hacker channels, including discussion of the indictment.The CIA declined to comment. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the FBI did not respond to requests for comment. Bret Schafer, who leads a team tracking Russian, Chinese and Iranian information manipulation efforts at the German Marshall Fund, a U.S. foreign policy think tank, said, “We haven’t seen Russia or China, at least through overt channels, amplifying outright disinformation about President Trump’s indictment and arrest.”
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