Election interference

"All the tales that it would be considered an interference in their internal affairs, we could absolutely spit on that," political commentator Henry Sardaryan said.

A prominent Russian figure recently admitted that the country has and will continue to engage in U.S. election interference.

On the eve of the midterm elections, one of Putin's allies admitted that "we interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere."

The Department of Defense has said the U.S. government is "actively defending against foreign interference and influence operations."

The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov and detailed allegations that he worked on behalf of Russia's government.

Three voting rights groups in Colorado are suing another group, accusing it of intimidating voters. A judge recently allowed the lawsuit to move forward.

In 2017, Konstantin Kozlovsky said he had been recruited to hack the Democratic National Committee and steal emails linked to Hillary Clinton.

"I didn't say anything wrong in the call," Trump said after news broke that a prosecutor requested a grand jury in a probe of Georgia election interference.

"We have a real-life autocratic movement alive and well in the United States," Steve Schmidt said Friday.

Moscow's envoy to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov said that "Russia is blamed for everything."

Prosecutor John Durham might be contemplating charges against some FBI employees and others outside the government.

Former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of the panel's investigation into efforts by Trump and his allies to interfere in the 2020 election results.

The Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. rejected a joint U.S. and U.K. advisory alleging Moscow operatives are targeting governments around the world.

"We have been accused of all kinds of things," Putin said, "and not once, not once, not one time, did they bother to produce any kind of evidence or proof, just unfounded accusations."

This month, the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security issued a joint report stating that the federal agencies found no evidence of foreign interference in the election.

The report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence found that Russia wanted to harm Joe Biden's candidacy.

Former President Donald Trump will make history this week as the only U.S. president to be impeached twice and the first to undergo trial after leaving office.

"Our system isn't what we thought it was," Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday. "It's not as fair as it should be, not even close."

A Facebook group encouraging people to interfere in the election reached over 300,000 members before it was deleted by Facebook.

"The truth is simple—only Russia has both the capability and intent to significantly disrupt our election," Senator Chris Murphy said.

The same group accused of meddling in the 2016 elections has been found by an FBI investigation to run a right-wing news site targeting U.S. voters ahead of the 2020 election.

In a trend reminiscent of 2016, China's efforts to interfere in the U.S. election has divided the American political class, largely because Beijing's efforts appear less threatening than Moscow's brutish maneuvers.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said President Donald Trump is "willfully fanning the flames" of racial unrest and violence because his campaign believes it helps his re-election chances.

"We're not having a summit with Vladimir Putin before the election," Robert O'Brien said.

United States intelligence agencies warned Russia and China are actively involved in 2020 election interference, but the two countries are not using their efforts to "denigrate" the same presidential candidate.

Democrats notified the FBI over concerns Russia is "laundering" intelligence directed against former Vice President Joe Biden through a GOP-led Senate committee.

Consequences could include financial-sector sanctions, asset freezes, cyber responses, or other actions, "depending on the nature of the attack," Biden wrote.

The head of Russia's parliamentary foreign affairs committee, Leonid Slutsky, said the statement by foreign secretary Dominic Raab was "Russophobic."

We cannot let misinformation—whether it comes from the White House, the Kremlin or anywhere else—sow seeds of doubt in our elections.

Americans are understandably bruised by election tampering. But mistrusting the process itself does not make our democracy any stronger.