WASHINGTON—Following the Trump administration’s repeated attempts to distract from Russian interference in the upcoming election, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week published an op-ed with CNN telling the American people the facts about Russia’s election interference.

“As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I have reviewed a lot of both unclassified and classified information detailing Russia's plan to disrupt the 2020 election,” Murphy wrote.

On the administration’s repeated attempts to conflate Russia, Chinese, and Iranian efforts to interfere in our election, Murphy wrote: “…[T]he White House, often with the help of political appointees at the intelligence agencies, is trying its best to cover up Russia's octopus-like disruption operation. Over and over, public statements from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence try to conflate Russian election interference with Iranian and Chinese efforts and suggest that while Russia may prefer Trump, Iran and China back Biden. We saw this false equivalency unfold just last week, when Director of National Intelligence Ratcliffe hastily called a press conference, taking no questions, to disclose an Iranian effort to contact and intimidate registered Democrats. Despite the fact that the emails told voters to support Trump, DNI Ratcliffe tried to make the case that the intent was to hurt Trump. It was just another effort by the administration to try to clumsily lump Russian and Iranian and Chinese efforts all together.”

“…[T]he more Americans know about Russia's intent and capability, the less likely Russia's desperate, last-minute attempts at interference and disruption will be. Those who care about the future of democracy will press the Administration to reveal what they know, before it's too late,” Murphy concluded.

Click here to read the op-ed in full.

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