Let’s be clear: Foreign interference has no place in American elections. There is a reason George Washington signed a Neutrality Act in 1794 making it illegal for Americans to take part in other nation’s wars and expelled Revolutionary France’s “Citizen” Genet when he attempted to incite opposition to the legitimately elected U.S. government. Washington understood that at best Genet had the best interests of France, not the United States, at heart, while at worst allowing him to operate would encourage the British to send agents of their own.
When Russian hackers successfully accessed and released the Clinton campaign’s internal emails, they could hardly have imagined they were setting off years of political strife that would culminate in an impeachment attempt and vindicate George Washington’s warnings. For the next four years, the dangers posed by foreign interference in our elections were made out to be among the most existential threats facing America by politicians, the media, and a long list of retired and current national security officials.
So, when a hostile foreign power like Iran is publicly revealed to have plotted the demise of Donald Trump – a presidential candidate who has already narrowly escaped two attempts on his life – you would expect those who warned of the dangers of Russian interference to shout their vindication from the rooftops. Or when hackers linked to the Chinese government hacked the emails of a major campaign and put them up for sale, one would think it would trigger solemn intonations about the threat to democracy. Likewise, a close aide to a foreign leader openly bragging about having recruited hundreds of foreign activists to aid an American political candidate should have brought Americans together.
Not, it appears, when the target of all this foreign interference is Donald Trump. Even when foreign actors like Iran are literally trying to kill him. It seems that when Donald Trump is the target, Democrats and their allies are all too willing to accept help wherever they can find it.
Iran’s murderous ambitions are no secret. U.S. intelligence agency officials briefed the Trump campaign this summer about Iran’s threats. Yet this concern has not been great enough to motivate the Biden administration to provide protection to former Trump administration officials, many of whom have had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on private security.
Nor has it led to steps to hold Iran accountable. As with most topics related to Iran, the Biden-Harris team seem to have thrown up their hands, treating the Iranian regime as if it is some sort of hurricane or force of nature no one can do anything about.
But even more stunning is the lack of media interest.
Imagine if it emerged that Vladimir Putin had ordered a hit on Kamala Harris. The media would be full of stories declaring Putin’s vendetta proof of the success of the Biden-Harris policy towards Ukraine, and speculation that it represented a Russian preference for Donald Trump. Implicitly there would be suggestions that a vote for Trump was a vote for Putin. That’s not even to mention the reaction of the Biden administration, which would likely pursue a military response.
Yet there is none of that here. Neither the media, nor the national security experts, want to concede that the elimination of Qasem Soleimani, much less the rest of Donald Trump’s Middle Eastern policy, was a success, especially at a time when the Biden-Harris approach is driving the region to the brink of total war. With no way to cover the story without making Donald Trump’s policies look good, the decision has been made to ignore this blatant aggression by a foreign power against our democracy.
Iran is hardly the only actor that has targeted the Trump campaign over the last few months. Chinese hackers have been busy attempting to break into secure databases. Unlike the Clinton campaign, where John Podesta was kind enough to click on exactly the sort of email link basic cyber-security training tells interns to avoid clicking upon, Chinese hackers have shown greater aggression, targeting not just the campaign but related organizations, including the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a think tank with close ties to Trump.
It is interesting to explore how the Associated Press manages to spin a story of the explicit targeting of the Trump campaign by hostile foreign actors into one in which innuendo is used to at best suggest neither campaign has been singled out and at worst that Trump is actually the recipient of foreign aid. According to the AP, “Iranian hackers have been blamed for targeting Trump campaign officials and the Justice Department has exposed vast disinformation campaigns orchestrated by Russia, which is said to favor Trump over Harris” (emphasis added).
Meanwhile China, the AP assures us, “is believed by U.S. intelligence officials to be taking a neutral stance in the race and is instead focused on down-ballot races, targeting candidates from both parties based on their stance on issues of key importance to Beijing, including support for Taiwan.” This, despite the fact that China has explicitly targeted AFPI, Donald Trump, and JD Vance, along with trying to sell hacked Trump campaign emails online.
Iran, which senior Biden administration officials have confirmed has tried to kill Donald Trump, has merely “been blamed” for targeting Trump officials, while Russia is said to “favor”Trump over Harris.
But favored by whom? It clearly is not Vladimir Putin, who has on several occasions expressed a preference for the election of Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, to the extent that a Russian official had to insist Putin was joking. That “clarification” made front-page news, but suggestions that the Kremlin has cooled on Donald Trump and no longer desires his victory have been relegated to foreign services like the BBC.
If Putin were to say he supported Donald Trump, is it possible to believe that would not drive political coverage for days or appear on front pages? Or that if a Russian official tried to walk-back those remarks claiming they were a joke, that the media would not be quick to cite this as further Russian misdirection to disguise their support for Trump?
It is not only with America’s adversaries that this double standard operates. Two weeks ago, Sophia Patel, the Director of Operations for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, bragged on LinkedIn about her efforts to recruit Labour Party staff, including local officials and parliamentary employees, to travel to the United States in order to aid the Harris campaign.
There was little ambiguity in Ms. Patel’s posts: “I havenearly 100 Labour Party staff (current and former) going to the U.S. in the next few weeks heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia,” she wrote. “I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of North Carolina – we willsort your housing.”
Nonetheless, CNN framed the complaint Trump’s lawyers filed with the FEC as a bid to “deflect election interference claims” by “igniting a spat with U.S. ally.” As if the Trump campaign’s motives had nothing to do with genuine, legitimate outrage at a foreign ruling party providing aid to an American political campaign, aid that may well have included not just illegal foreign donations but volunteers on the salary of foreign taxpayers.
Those concerns were absent at the June 2022 NATO Summit, when Joe Biden forced European leaders to stand beside him as he denounced his own Supreme Court, and then challenged them to echo his words. That is precisely the sort of thing George Washington warned against – American politicians demanding foreigners take sides in their domestic disputes.
Americans should consider this election week why so many foreign powers, especially those like China and Iran which even Democrats admit are enemies, are targeting Donald Trump. They clearly do not have our best interests at heart, and know Donald Trump does not have theirs. Which likely explains why so many on the left are so desperate to bury any evidence that, in their desire to stop Donald Trump, they and America’s enemies share a common cause.
Voters should not allow Democrats, foreigners, or anyone else to put America last.
Walter Samuel is the pseudonym of a prolific international affairs writer and academic. He has worked in Washington as well as in London and Asia, and holds a Doctorate in International History.
The media won’t cover President Trump’s enemies, whether at home or abroad, because the media IS the ENEMY of President Trump. They’re just the mouthpiece of the Marxist uniparty left.
The media has always reported only what their handlers allowed. FDR and his wheelchair… JFK and is womanizing…Biden Crime Family….these were all bombshell stories that were tabu to cover. PRAY FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP! He is are only hope to reset this evil path we are on.
The fake news is as alive and well as it has been since the “progressives” have been trying to transform our country into a hell-hole where they will rule forever. And as anyone who knows how Fascism, Marxism and Communism begin to take root, that is what has been going on here for many years. The bulk of the media has to lie about what the enemy is doing to make their take-over possible. If everyone paid attention to what is happening in our country, Trump would win in a fair election. Sadly, there are many including some people I know who pay no attention to the real world and go vote Democrat and they do not want to even discuss it!
Great and enlightening article for the left and the biased & corrupt media to see and ponder on, before they sell us out to our enemies. This Presidential election is God’s warning to all of us voters to choose peace and prosperity with Trump, or wars and poverty with Kamala. God has given us HIS choice by saving Trump twice from being murdered. Think with logic & not with biased & emotional choice. May God bless all with WISDOM TO DO HIS WILL, and not our own flawed will. Amen!
The Media CEO’S are either Woke Liberals or they are threaten by Soros and the Globalists/Deep State.
The media is aiding the enemies of Trump, try NewsMax OAN RAV
Remember that MSM is basically under the control of foreign enemies so they will never report anything good about their opponents. As to interference in other countries elections, the USA has done its fair share of interferences in those elections so don’t think that our country has a “halo over our heads”. No matter what is tried to be hidden, it will be found out.
Perhaps, they are hoping that they will succeed in taking Pres. Trump out. Believe it- these people and forces are evil.
This foreign interference is the globalist elites to bring America down as a super power. China in the New World Order will be the boss. This all sounds unbelievable. But if you follow the policies of Biden Harris these past 4 years and the 8 years of O you see that that is the true path of the ultra left and the dem party. The Chinese spy balloon was allowed to drift over our country unimpeded for days. Afghanistan was abandoned with 80 billion dollars worth of equipment. Iran was given billions of dollars to go to war with Israel. Chinese officials are buying up land and setting up spy stations, they call them garages or police stations, all over America and don’t forget the labs the Chinese have all over America. Doing who knows what. Then the invaders coming across the border by the thousands. Hundreds and hundreds of Chinese as well. Biden Harris have no idea where they are or what they are doing. Hillary destroyed her emails but that is okay. Trump had peace and prosperity during his presidency that was not okay. They cheer Iran for trying to assassinate Trump. They all were upset that Trump survived the first attempt. Openly on MSM, what makes you think they would do anything to protect Trump or his supporters from Irans plans to eliminate him and us. That is what this whole border policy is about. Who feels safe out on the streets of any city in the US. Our rural areas are next. Where these pockets of infiltrators reside. They don’t care that many of these invaders are assassins they encourage it. The coup to install Harris as the candidate for president was the last piece of proof that America will become a banana republic. We the people will be eliminated and are daily replaced by the invaders from all over the world. VOTE TRUMP VANCE it’s the only chance to save America.
The way I see it, Iran and other Muslim countries are just the tentacles of a common denominator that don’t show their faces but run the world where everything has to flow their way or else. Have you ever wondered why Barry sent an airplane with billions of dollars to Iran?
they don’t cover it Because they approve of the action !! Bad orange man
Why? Because they hope someone will eliminate Trump in any way possible so they won’t be blamed for it.
The media is intimidated by Trump, because he’s an innovative thinker who “spooked” them and their left-ward clients in 2016. They know how dangerous he has been to fraudulent actors like HRC, Harris, Biden, the entire “democrat” party, etc., and that’s why they ganged up and tried to destroy him with false litigation. He exposed the left for what they are (phonies), and he is coming back, yet again, because the left does not matter to him… but innocent, American citizens DO matter to him.
Because the Democrat Party resents being described in those terms?
Why Won’t The Media Cover America’s Enemies Targeting Donald Trump?Because the media is America’s enemies
OK I’ll say it: the press and their Democrat masters WANT Donald Trump OUT of the race be it voter fraud, DOJ jackbooting, local indictments coordinated with the WH, or assassination. Win or lose, I don’t expect things to get anymore “bipartisan” either. “Any means necessary” right?
Selfish miscreants!
The media is part of the deep state/Uni-party apparatus!
It is just unthinkable that a foreign country would send people to interfere in our election. Isn’t there a law against this, or a way to stop them? Of course, the Biden administration doesn’t follow laws or rules anyway. May they soon be gone.
When was the first or the last time they reported only truth? They are the public enemy number one.
They can add that Unions gave $Millions of our tax dollars to democrats.
Simple answer: they can’t, they won’t, they have been and are paid not to, they are afraid.
It seems that the good Mr. Samuel sees boogie men everywhere our beloved deep state claims they are.
You honestly believe its Iran out to get President Trump? The two failed attempts so far have only a single common element that being our beloved intelligence agencies if the FBI and intelligence can still be mentioned in the same sentence.
Our enemies are from much closer than Iran.
So very concerned about President Trump, his family and potential cabinet members. They all need our prayers and God’s protection – they’re certainly not going to get it anywhere else.
Unfortunately Trump has more enemies right here in America than abroad. Besides Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and the whole democrap party, there is most of the media and all their talking heads. At least when Putin, XI and some others are mentioned, most Americans understand they areTrump’s enemies and ours. But many, hopefully, most Americans cannot imagine our own Sitting President, VP and other members of the demcrap party being so hateful, un American, vindictive and willing to destroy America so that the democrap party can stay in power indefinitely! Biden’s dementia is not an excuse, he has always been like that!
I’ll say it. Democrats and the media won’t report or admonish planned Trump assassination attempts for one simple reason. If one, god forbid, succeeds, it removes a thorn in their side that they’ve been trying to remove for going on 10 years. Plain and simple.
The leftist media won’t report on anything positive on the conservative side because they take their orders from the”deep sewer marxists”.
Because the media is implicit in the attacks!
This nation is under attack. The only difference between now and when our Founders were fighting England is that our present “leaders” are determined to destroy this Constitutional Republic by hook or crook. George Bush Sr. presidential acceptance speech: “We must usher in the New World Order.” I heard that speech and have since learned what it means. America is under attack and in just as much danger as it was almost 250 years ago…the left just hasn’t started using cannons against it…yet. The left, including rino’s, are determined to destroy this Republic. Barack Hussein Obama stumping speech: “I am going to fundamentally change America.” Seen “visiting” the White House multiple times no doubt coaching his previous vice president. Two attempts on Trump’s life. Ronald Reagan was almost assassinated, JFK murdered, tho’ a democrat, was an American and a good president. Wm. Jefferson Clinton is getting into the mix…the same Clinton who presided over the slaughter of men, women and children in Waco, Texas. American citizens who were bad mouthed, accused, and their slaughter cheered on by the “media”…ultimately burned to death and CS gassed.
Hillary Clinton who should make anyone shudder. So many bad actors are coming out of the rotting woodpile and all will do what they can to stop Trump. 2 attempts on his life already. Anyone believe these attempts are random? Jan.6th. people still in horrific conditions in jail cells yet never charged with a thing. Ashly Babbitt, a veteran, shot to death trying to calm people down in the Capitol building when about 5 masked men blew in and started trouble. She was shot to death trying to calm visitors down, by a capitol cop sitting safely behind his bullet proof glass enclosure. Never charged. AOC suggesting that Americans be put in “re-education” camps and on and on. The left, including rino’s, have declared war on We The People and Trump is the main target.
America is under siege unlike never before save when England was determined to own this new nation. Unless all real Americans are willing to go beyond the ballot box if necessary…we will become another 3rd. world country. Our nation compared to others is relatively “young”. A nation unlike any other in history. Perhaps we’ve taken it for granted, gotten to comfortable. Re: after Waco. The democrats were going to go after our guns…as a result militias sprang up all over the nation…the dems “decided to wait for a more opportune time.” There is one reason and one reason only to disarm a people. For now the left is drafting more and more “laws” on firearms as it’s also incrementally weakened our once strong justice system…there may be those who might remember when 85,000 new “IRS” agents were hired by the government…the news article also said they’d be “armed”. We’ve been blessed, we’ve been relatively safe, prosperous; but schools now teaching lies, a bloated “government” unlike the small government our Founders envisioned. Our police are under siege and many are retiring early or just quitting. A good friend in my town was a police officer in charge of SWAT. He was a life long cop, loved his job and was a decent man. When Obama started his war on them, he like many good dedicated cops retired early. Can’t help but “wonder” what the left will replace our cops with. Forgive me for going on…but 30 years ago the slaughter of American citizens, under a sitting president, being played out for 51 ugly days on TV as the ‘media’ cheered it on, changed this lady’s life forever.
God bless America and soon!!
The reason the “media” will not cover Trumps enemies is because they are not a media. They are an arm of the Democrat party.
Silly question, Walter. The “media,” rather than being neutral arbiters, are on the DIMM team! Do you expect them to expose their own “fouls?”
The fake news media needs serious medical help for their Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The Democrat party is repulsive and noxious. Their perfidious collaborations and associations with the dregs of the world is exposed but still thriving. The MSM which is Democrat and Left covers for them in every way possible aligning itself with the Leftist Progressives creatures and policies more and more. A citizen must b alert to this ad seek many ways to get news and information That is often a difficult assignment which is why there are so many low information voters.
Well, we know the media is backing the Democrat party 100%. The main enemy of the democrats is also the enemy of the media. You know, the enemy of my friend is my enemy also. And we all know that person is Trump. I believe the democrats are so afraid of Donald Trump, that they believe they cannot beat him at the Electoral College, so they will do ANYTHING to get him out of the picture. And I do mean ANYTHING; including making “deals with the Devil” (Iran / Russia / China), whomever they must, just to get rid of Donald J. Trump. And another thing … That speech a few days ago from President Joe Biden …. When he was talking about his home state of Connecticut, and how its people are just SOOO nice and pleasant? Then, he does the unthinkable. He said, “the only garbage he saw floating around out there, are HIS supporters”. Now, whom do you think he was referring to? You get 3 guesses and the first 2 don’t count. He was talking about US, you and me, honest, hard-working Americans! How DARE the sitting President, call American citizens ‘GARBAGE’! He thinks YOU are garbage; he thinks I am garbage. He thinks American citizens are no better than everyday garbage! HOW DARE HE! And because he is the leader of the democrat party, this puts this squarely on the backs of ALL Democrats! Now, NO VIOLENCE against ANYONE! I want that made perfectly clear, that I am NOT advocating or proposing ANY violence against ANYONE. That is not what I do. Yes, I am angry! You should be also! Remember, he called YOU garbage! Be sure to vote; do not sit this one out! I have rambled on plenty long enough…..
I have supported Trump all along the way and will continue to do so.I admire his business acumen. He has proven he knows what he is doing. You don’t have to wonder what he is thinking. I like his laugh better than Harris’s laugh.I pray he is elected and takes his seat in the Oval office.
Media ownership and their personnel are related to government officials who are related to corporations. They are all in it to steal our taxes and use it for their own profit!
DO NOT TRUST THE MEDIA! For years the mainstream media has distorted the news that appears on TV and in the newspapers. Flash back to 1963 when I was in Junior High School. My Civics teacher warned the class “do not believe everything you read in the newspaper.” And he was right. Now that warning includes MSMBC, CNN, The View and The New York Times, ABC and NBC. Gone are the days of the Walter Cronkites and Huntley and Brinkley. You have to form your own opinion and conscience.
Most of the media is Dem/leftist owned
Why were these British rabblerousers allowed to enter the US? Why weren’t their VISAs flagged? Why aren’t the US citizens over working with the Palestinians against Israel not under arrest?
I don’t like Trump partly because of that super-size ego, but if he didn’t have that, he’d have given up on trying to save America long ago. What this man has gone through is simply mind-boggling. Thank you Mr. Trump.
The media won’t cover it, because the media may be largely complicit, such as a NASCAR race with ABC News reporting election results in Pennsylvania with Harris winning by 5% with 100% of the vote in. Who to report it to, with mailboxes full or no way to reach out on the phone?
Because the media are horz