Summary

In Chapter 4, Woodward covers the first instances of Russian meddling in the election by making digital intrusions into voter rolls in the summer of 2015. The NSA and FBI collected more information on these "cyber intrusions," and they briefed Obama on them. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper briefed members of the Congress about the intelligence and then released the information to the public. However, this news was completely obscured when the Washington Post released a story about Trump speaking lewdly about women on a tape recorded for the show "Access Hollywood" in which he said, "Gab them by the pussy" (30). The Russian hacking story disappeared as Trump's campaign tried to conduct damage control. Priebus, head of the RNC, thought the race was over, but Bannon refused to give up. Trump gathered his advisors in his house. Priebus wanted Mike Pence to become the...