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Let’s make this simple:

1. Russia attacked the United States in 2016 by disrupting the presidential election.

2. The origin of the attack is a matter of consensus among American intelligence agencies.

3. The current president of the United States refuses to acknowledge the attack, refuses to respond to it and refuses to help protect the country against a likely follow-up attack.

4. In the wake of the mass murder of 17 Americans in Florida, the president falsely claimed that the F.B.I. failed to prevent the massacre because it was too occupied with the Russia investigation. In doing so, he repeated his frequent lie that the Russian operation did not exist.