{"id":329116,"date":"2025-08-08T23:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329116\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:38:11","slug":"consider-this-from-npr-npr-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329116\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider This from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n U.S. President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Vladimir Putin, Russia’s President, during a news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in July 2018.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Vladimir Putin, Russia’s President, during a news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in July 2018.<\/p>\n

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The question of whether Russian interference in the 2016 election was a decisive reason Donald Trump won the presidency is one that has dogged Trump for the better part of a decade.<\/p>\n

It’s also been the subject of numerous investigations.<\/p>\n

But even though that question has been asked and answered, the current Trump administration is launching another investigation in an effort to reach a different conclusion. <\/p>\n

Last month, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, declassified documents and leveled an unprecedented accusation: The Obama administration knowingly pushed the idea of Russian interference as false narrative to sabotage Trump’s campaign. <\/p>\n

And this week, Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized an investigation into the investigation of his 2016 campaign’s relationship Russia. <\/p>\n

What is there left to learn? <\/p>\n

For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Email us at considerthis@npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This episode was produced by Michael Levitt, with audio engineering by Ted Mebane.<\/p>\n

It was edited by Courtney Dorning.<\/p>\n

Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Vladimir Putin, Russia’s President, during a news conference in Helsinki,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-329116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114995783745726122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}