After sucking up to Xi earlier this year, Trump has seemingly decided that making China the bad guy will give him an opening to blame China for his election loss. So he has taken actions to upset China (blame them for virus, close Houston consulate, Tiktok/WeChat, etc). 2/— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) August 8, 2020
Same for Iran, against whom Trump has taken an aggressively adversarial approach following Obama admin Iran deal. Of course Iran would prefer Biden over Trump, who has threatened Iran from day one. But again, this is NOT equivalent to covert efforts to undermine election. 4/— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) August 8, 2020
Because @SenRonJohnson is using information that our intelligence community has assessed to be an effort to influence the election in 3 months as a basis for his sham Ukraine investigation. Either wittingly or unwittingly, Johnson appears to be a Russian intelligence asset. END— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) August 8, 2020