Letter to the Editor: Mueller Report is 'frightening'

I recently finished reading The Mueller Report. All 448 pages of it. It is a real and frightening eye-opener. I wish all Americans would/could read it. It certainly doesn’t say exactly what Attorney General William Barr told us it did.
The first volume is related to Russia’s extreme interference in the 2016 election. Mueller did not find evidence that the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia, but there were over 180 contacts between Russians and people connected to Trump’s campaign.
The report says “the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome and the (Trump) campaign expected it would benefit from (and was aware of) Russian efforts.”
Russia stole Democratic emails and released them through Wikileaks, they used social media to stir up racial hatred, to spread negative stories about Hillary Clinton – even hiring actors to dress as Clinton in a jail cell at Trump rallies. They contacted American citizens and enlisted them to host Trump rallies. They got into voter registration data bases, Secretary of State databases, and even apparently hacked into some voting machines.
As Robert Mueller says in his opening, “The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a sweeping and systematic fashion.” And they are still doing it!
What, Senator Thune, Senator Rounds, are you doing to secure the 2020 election from Russian interference? Nothing, as far as I can tell. That is unacceptable.
Joan McMillin
Sioux Falls

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