Mueller changed everything for Democrats' strategy?
In the beginning of Byron York's May 23 column "Mueller changed everything on strategy of the Democrats," he states, "Mueller could not establish that there was a conspiracy or coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign to fix the 2016 election."
Referring to the Mueller report accurately is clearly important and different from Mr. York's words, as shown on Page 1 of the report: "First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, A Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees and volunteers working on the Clinton campaign and then released stolen documents. The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign."
Also, the report clearly describes a main issue of reaching a conclusion of collusion, conspiracy or coordination as being the lack of specific laws that address this problem.
Four questions: Do U.S. citizens agree with candidates having "numerous links' with foreign countries that "conducted computer-intrusion operations" and "carried out a social media campaign that favored" them? Is this a serious issue for the Democrats, Republican or both parties? Do we need to address the lack of specific laws regarding campaigns? Does the Daily Herald present factual and properly referenced information on the Opinion page that U.S. citizens can rely on versus slanted political rhetoric?
Based on Mr. York's opinion, a lot of other news articles and other media reporting, reading just the first part of the 400-page Mueller report seems important to being responsibly informed and not misled by political rhetoric.
Finally, what do we think will happen in future elections if foreign countries are free to conduct computer-intrusion operations and carry out social media campaigns with numerous links to certain candidates?
Bill Stenzel
Palatine