“We assume what he’s talking about here is these intimidating ‘vote Trump or else’ emails that were sent to Democratic registered voters in Florida and in numerous other states, but maybe that’s not what he’s talking about,” she continued. “What are you talking about? Spit it out.” But when it comes to what he actually communicated, frankly nobody actually knows what he was talking about,” she said. “We got this drama, short-notice press conference on election security, there is drama in that. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow displayed only slightly more caution in sharing a Vice article, which pointed out that the Proud Boy email address didn’t necessarily implicate the group, while stipulating “it is of course possible that someone involved with the Proud Boys was involved in spoofing the emails.” Following the press conference, Maddow raised questions about Ratcliffe’s conclusion that the emails were designed to hurt Trump by making his supporters seem nefarious. “When we see indications of foreign interference or federal-election crimes, we’re going to aggressively investigate and work with our partners, to quickly take appropriate action,” Wray added. “You may have seen some reporting on this in the last 24 hours or you may have even been one of the recipients of those emails.” “We have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters, incite social unrest, and damage President Trump,” Ratcliffe said. The Lincoln Project amassed over 12,000 retweets, but eventually deleted the claim after FBI director Chris Wray and Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe revealed in an emergency press conference Wednesday night that Russia and Iran had obtained “some voter-registration information” that Iran was already using to send the emails.
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