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On the recordDecember 31, 2022
This was the Trojan Horse, 2016. 2016, I, as Secretary of Homeland Security, was very focused on potential cyber attacks on election infrastructure. And just before I left office, I declared the election infrastructure to be critical infrastructure. The Trojan Horse was the extent to which the Russian government invaded our American conversation.
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Jeh Johnson
Democratic · New York

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Jeh Johnson discusses the impact of Russian interference in the 2016 election and the misconception about cyber attacks on election infrastructure.

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