Blog #2

In the Houston Chronicle  the article, "Trump: US must work with Russia, move past election issues", illustrates the speculation that Russia may have hacked into the United States 2016 Presidential election. President Trump attended a meeting on Friday with Russian President Putin. When he attended the meeting, Trump asked Putin if Russia had interfered with the U.S. elections. According to the article, Putin denied that Russia had interfered with the elections. However, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus claimed that he speculated Trump did not believe Putin. Trump apparently asked the question many times, but since Putin wouldn’t admit anything else the meeting moved forward. In addition, at the meeting Trump and Putin discussed plans to implement a Cyber Security unit which was critiqued by both Democrats and Republicans.

This article is important because it demonstrates that the U.S. is still unaware if Russia interfered with the 2016 Presidential election. Despite being unaware, the U.S. is still attempting to work with Russia in foreign affairs. Therefore, the article is allowing U.S. citizens to decide what they believe really happened between the U.S. and Russia.