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0 support Trump. But that includes more return tO hiS primary mission, regardless than 70 % 0f Republicans ⅲ recent polls. ofthe questioning ofhis motives. "I tOOk "There is an overwhelming percentage an oath tO preserve, protect and defend of Republican [voters] who are still loyal the Constitution Of the United States,: ” t0 Trump, ' explains lllinois Senator Dick Rosenstein said in a May 15 speech tO Durbin, the chamber's second-ranking business owners in Baltimore. iS Democrat. SO it unnerves themwhen nothing in that oath about my reputation. ” the time. But in SOttO voce conversations they think about retaining control 0f the TWO days later, Deputy Attorney across the Capitol, Republican lawmakers are venting about the president's reckless- House and Senate. General Rosenstein acceded tO the ness. At a minimum, they are fed up with Republican leaders have mostly gone demands Of Democrats in Congress by his antics. Some question his suitability t0 ground. House Spe aker Paul Ryan has appointing a special counsel, former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, to take for the job. "ProbabIy two-thirds of the tried t0 change the subject, holding apress over direction Of the Rus S ia investigation, Republicans ⅲ the Senate are deeply conference about tax reform in the midst creating a new buffer tO protect the probe worried about President Trump, says of the uproar and offering only a weak from political interference. Mueller ran Senator Tim Kaine, the Virginia Democrat assurance that he maintains confidence the FBI from 2001 to 2013. WhO was Clinton's running mate in 2016. in the President. Senate maJority leader "A handful have been willing to say so. Mitch McConnell has repeated his patient THE SYSTEM DEMANDS a different role But the past few weeks have done requests for less White House drama. to be played by the elected members 0f little t0 dent Trump's popularity among Others have begun t0 break ranks more Congress, wh0 pledge allegiance t0 the Republican voters. White House aides forcefully. "The White House has got to Constitutio n but are directly answerable remain confident that most Trump dO something soon tO bring itself under tO VOters. Here, tOO, tWO weeks Of supporters see the scandals primarily as control and in order,: ” said Senator BOb disturbing revelations from the White media creations. shock absorbers Corker Of Tennessee, chairman Of the are thiclg ” says one senior white House House have begun tO shift calculations. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Offcial, citing campalgn controversies like For Democrats, the pressure tO oppose "Obviously, they're in a downward spiral the Access HO wood tape. When Richard Trump is overwhelming. For most right now. ” ln an interview with TIME RepubIicans, loyalty to the President will Nixon resigned 仕 om 0ffce in 1974 , 24 % of SenatorJ0hn McCain exhorted colleagues last as long as their interests align. the American public still approved ofhis t0 stop carrying water for the President. "I SO far, the GOP's 52 Senators have all pre sidency. That was more than tWO ye ars can't relate tO those people whO weather- voted ⅲ accordance with the Trump Ad- after the Watergate break-in. As it stands, vane," fumed McCain. "DO what's right. ” ministration's preferences at least 88 % Of according t0 Gallup, 38 % 0f Americans He later tOld an audience that the waves 22 TIME May 29 , 2017 McMaster 砒 the briefing-room 0 市 um , defending Trump's decision tO share intelligence with Russia

TheView BOOK IN BRIEF crucial years leading up t0 the 2020 Census but alSO at a uniquely volatile moment on the political stage. Throughout b0th his campaign and his time in offlce , president Trump has regularly assaile d both the legitimacy offederal institutions and the veracity ofobjective facts. NOW Trump is tasked with appointing Thompson's replacement—and, more important, ensuring that Americans can trust the data that he or she presents. There are signs that the bureau is struggling. ln April, Congress allocated less than halfits requested budget increase for 2017 , leading the agency t0 cancel or abridge some scheduled field tests. lfthat trend continues, it may be forced tO cut corners on the Census. "lfyou underfund the Census, you get an undercount; ” says Kenneth prewitt, whO directed the bureau during the 2000 Census. "And ifyou don't count people, they are politically invisible, in effect. ” Meanwhile, the Trump Administration, which as 0fmid-May has yet to name anyone for 455 key federal roles requiring Senate confirmation, hasn't said wh0 will replace Thompson, or when. The Commerce Department told TIME it is "conducting an active se arch bOth internally and externally ” for a replacement. There are concerns that whoever is tapped may politicize the Census, says Bruce Bartlett, a former aide t0 Ronald Reagan and George H. 、 M. Bush. lt's up to the director, after all, to decide how much effort should be put into tracking down hard-to- find populations. And ifhe or she makes choices that wind up, say, excluding minorities, that could unfairly shift "representation and money from blue states tO red states; ” Bartlett says. The biggest threat to the integrity ofthe Census maybe Trump himself. "When I hear a President say he doesn't trust federal numbers or they're made up, l'm concerned,: ” says Katherine Wallman, whO served as chiefstatistician Ofthe し S. from 1992 tO 2017 , referring in part tO Trump's repeated claim that the Bureau ofLabor Statistics' unemployment numbers were "fake. ” IfTrump were tO dO the same thing—to send a tweet dismissing the 2020 Cen- sus data in similar terms—it would eviscerate a key part Ofthe foundation upon which our government is based. lfwe can't agree how many people live in each county, how can we fairly and accurately allo- cate seats for state legislatures or the House? This kind ofcrisis has happened before. After the 1920 Census, Congress refused tO accept data showing the country's rapid urbanization and voted not tO reallocate seats based on that supposedly flawed information. But in today's political climate, with a President regularly peddling mistrust of any institution he cannot control, the fallout may be worse. "lfyou're making choices designed tO benefit one ofthe parties; ” warns Prewitt, you ve killed the Census. ” 14 TIME May 29 , 2017 The new conspicuous consumption IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, THE economist Thorstein Veblen famously skewered members 0fthe upper class for trying t0 telegraph their social status by surrounding themselves with luxury goods—a phenomenon he dubbed "conspicuous consumption. But Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, author of The Sum 可 Small Things, says a new cultural elite iS on the rise: the aspirational class. These are people wh0 aren't necessarily riCh but whO share a set ofviews on the most socially conscious ways tO spend money—for instance, driving only organic produce. While these are financial choices , Currid-Halkett argues that they are driven primarily by an aspiration tO be—or at least appear tO be—"their version ofbetter humans. ” That's why, for this milieu, a farmers' market is SO symbolically not. ”—SARAH BEGLEY VERBATIM 'Leadership women has to be O. K. Emotion in men has to be O. K. ' SHERYL SANDBERG, Facebook C00 and author Of Option B: FacingAdversity, BuiIding Resilience, and FindingJoy, on bucking gender stereotypes in the workplace The SUM S M A L L TIIINGIS« ドいハ b h ( : Ⅲ 1 ・ id ・日い・い CHARTOON Historical status updates 。 HENRY VIII ' RELATIONSHIP 0 SEYMOUR 0 熱 BOLEYN 、 JOAN OF ARC 3 SHAR ED ANOTHER Ⅵ ON 0 0 ENGLAND COPERNICUS FELT THE EARTH , MOVE 0 THE SUN 0 THE CHURCH NAPOLEON 旧 GOING TO AN EVENT NEAR WATERLOO 0 DUKE OF WELLINGTON GUTENBERG PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME 0 SCRIVENERS' ION 0 EVERYONE ELSE DARW DEVOLVED HIS PRO 日圧 PICTURE 0 SCIENCE 0 RELIGION ロ 」 OHN ATKINSON, WRONG HANDS

S U M M E R M OV ー E P R EV IEW JUNE Sinister style in period drama My Cousin 飛 ac れ el Rachel Weisz's character ⅲ the adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's best-selling novel is a puz- zle: a widow WhO iS either an innocent victim or a treacherous killer—・ or maybe whatever's in between. The time period Of the bOOk is also ambig- uous, which let the film's creators decide on one for themselves. Costume designer Dinah COIIin says setting the film ⅲ 1840 meant they could avoid the stiff crinolines that became popular a decade later as well as the "hilarious " big sle eves Of the previous decade. "You want something much more elegant," COIIin says. Especially when you're trying tO dress a riddle, wrapped ⅲ a mystery, inside an enigma. gM Cous Rachel June 9 0 Poignant illustrations by a come dian 回 Knock-down, drag- 0 ut rivalries MAN VS. WOMAN Beatriz at Dinner, an earth- loving healer (Salma Hayek) trades verbal barbs with an earth- leveling developer ( 」 Ohn Lithgow) at a dinner party. TO ー強 Cruise's death- (and age-) defying stunts ltwas Tom Cruise's idea tO film a plane crash in zero G for TheMummy.. The 54 ッ ea ト 0 shOt the scene on a plane that NASA astronauts had dubbed the Vomit Comet. "When Tom hears, ・ That's not possible,' he goes, ・ Youjustcommitted yourselfto it,'" says director Alex Kurtzman. Here arethe numbers behind the set-piece sequence: he Mummy(June 9 Demetri Martin not only wrote, directed and starred in his movmg new comedybut so illustrated it. HiS interstitial dra 、 Mings punctuate the storyofa man namedDean (Martin) and his father (Kevin KIine),who mourntheloss ofDean's mother and pursue romance onparallel tracks. pean (June 2 ) MY COUSIN RAC 工 EL: 「 OX SEARC 工 LIG 工 T; DEAN ( 2 ) 】 CBS; BEATRIZ AT DINNER: ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS; APES: 20T 工 CENTURY 「 OX 】 AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: PARAMOUNT; WONDER WOMAN: GETTY IMAGES;ILLUSTRATIONS BY CARRIE LAPOLLA FOR TIME 0 0 Cf) ー Q Q 0 0 < o E 30 , 000 22 0 THESHADOW OF DEATH Dean does everything he can to escape the cloud Of grief over him, from flying across the country to lookingfor a new love. Butthe more he avoids reality, the more the Grim Reaper clings to his shadow. Number Of feet the plane dropped SHOWING DEATH THE 000R Dean learns that grief is best navigated not through avoidance but confrontation. Only once he has acknowledged the pain he wants tO escape can he begin tO move on, little by ⅱ e. 44 TIME May 29 , 2017 MAN VS. CLIMATE CHANGE 旧 An lnconvenient Sequel, a follow-up to his 2006 Oscar winner, former Vice President Gore continues his environmental crusade. Seconds of weightlessness for each flight— the time tO get the shOts right Number of stunt doubles for Cruise, whO didn't lose his lunch eatriz at 0 加 e ′ (June 9 ) ・ War fo ′ the Planet 0 ′ the Apes ( 」 u ツ 14 ) ; 4 00 ve ⅲ e t Seque (JuIy 28 Number Of takes. The crew rode the plane 16 times in a row いいⅵ℃ e a day for two days

By 1943 , ⅲ the midst 0fWorld War Ⅱ , nearly 4 ⅲ 10 0fAmerica's nonagricultural workers were employed in manufactur- ing, producing steel, ships and aircraft for the U. S. war effort; later, such work- ers produced homes, cars and air condi- tioners for the ascendant postwar mid- dle class. The jobs were often steady and unionized, the pay good, and the require- ments rarely more than a high school di- ploma and a solid work ethic. But all that started t0 die ⅲ the early 1980S. Some 19.5 million Americans held manufacturing j0bs in 1979 , an all-time down t0 about 16.7 million. By 2024 , ac- cording tO projections from the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Just 7.1 % Of Americans will work in manufacturing. The reasons are many, but the prime culprits are globalization and automation. ln 1991 , China accounted for 2.3 % 0fthe world's manufacturing exports. ln 2001 , the country joined the World Trade Or- ganization, and by 2013 , China's share 0f global exports was 18.8 % , according t0 a 2016 study in the A れれ u Review 0fEC0- nomics. countrie S such as Mexico and the Philippines have also increased their ex- ports. Labor in these markets tends tO be substantially cheaper than in the U. S. , and trade deals like NAFTA make it easy for American companies tO produce goods ⅲ far-flung locales. TO economists, however, America S shrinking manufacturing j obs have le s s to do with free trade than with robots. The U. S. still produces world-class air- planes, car parts and heavy machin- ery. Companies Just need fewer people tO make them. The result, according tO the Brookings lnstitution, is that whereas it tOOk 25 jObs tO generate $ 1 million in manufacturing output in 1980 , tOday it takes just 6.5 jobs. Many of the nation's factories are more productive than ever, and there is growing demand for work- ers in so-called advanced manufacturing roles. From 2013 tO 2015 , 132 , 000 such jobs were added, according t0 Brookings ・ But these positions increasingly re- quire specialized technical training after high school, with preference often going tO those with degrees in science, technol- 0 engineering and math. And the work will be less about fitting pieces together manually than overseeing the rob Ots that do it. Today, according t0 research from 34 TIME May29, 2017 ・ DO れ Zering, Rexnord's u ⅲ 0 れ rep, 砒 the United Steelworkers も oc 1999 ゞ he's worked 砒 the companyfor 44 ツ e 肝 s the Boston Consulting Group, robots per- form about 10 % Of manufacturing work around the world. By 2025 , they are pro- jected t0 account for about 25 %. "High- skill workers in factories will be managing processes; says DavidAutor, aprofessor ofeconomics at the Massachusetts lnsti- tute of Technology (MIT), "rather than showing off manual dexterity. Autor's research shows that Ameri- can workers WhO lOSt their manufactur- ing jobs as a result of trade shocks, like competition from Chinese imports, are likely to make less money and collect more disability benefits over the ensu- ing decade. He predicts a similar fate for the women and men at Rexnord. "Unless they get very lucky, there won't be an- other employer out there saying, 'Great, I can use a few more ball-bearings guys, says Autor. Even the rescued Carrier jobs may be vulnerable. ln an interview about the deal with CNBC in December, UTC chairman and CEO Greg Hayes said a $ 16 million investment tO automate tasks in the plant would ultimately reduc e the workforce. And the company is moving ahead with the closure 0f another plant in Huntington, lnd. , which workers had 0 House Speaker Paul Ryan, as part of the on domestic sales and imports favored by cluding the bo rder adj ustment tax, a levy his Rexnord tweet, has Trump backed in- has been in place since 1994. Nor, despite agreement among the three nations that want tO re negotiate the sweep ing trade not t0 terminate NAFTA, though he does ers 0fCanada and Mexico, he has agreed mies. And after consulting with the lead- between the world's two largest econo- the value Of the strategic relationship manipulator, a sign that he recognizes longer publicly calls China a currency Sive stances on trade. The president Ⅱ 0 has softened some Of his most aggres- the nation S economic carnage, Trump But after pledging to put an end to ofbusiness-friendly Cabinet Secretaries. ln addition, he has appointed a number tions in the name ofspurringJ0b growth. and workplace safety reporting regula- rolled back Obama-era environmental Australia and Japan. The President also ment among a dozen countries including Partnership, the 2016 free-trade agree- pulling the U. S. out 0f the Trans-Pacific most notable move on trade has been SO far, the Trump Administration's Reagan, Clinton and George 、 M. Bush. workplace commissions under Presidents town's carnevale, WhO served on national Ⅱ 0 easy way out 0f this; ” says George- some 700 people will be laid 0 圧 deal. When it shutters by early next year, hoped would be included in the Trump

TheView Viewpoint Searching for a soul mate is futile. The ideal partner iS the one you create By Ada C 0 設 n "GIVEN THAT YOU HAVE 500 , OOO , 000 POTENTIAL soul mates,: ” writes Randall Munroe in the science bOOk what "you would find true love only ⅲ one lifetime out Of 10 , 000. ” A cousin Of mine gave a toast along these lines at his brother's wedding. He calculated the odds of finding the one person "meant for you,' given the billions 0f people on the planet, the number 0f people you're likely t0 meet in the course 0f your life and the fact that in the scheme 0f human history, none 0f us stay in a corporeal b0dy for very long. The toast concluded: "SO I think the 0dds are against your being soul mates, but that doesn't make it less Of a miracle that you found each 0ther. ” But the soul-mate idealjust won't go away. You see it invoked ⅲ dating profiles, in rom-coms and on The Bachelor. The concept dates back at least to Plat0's Symposium. Zeus, seeking t0 humble humans, split them in half, forcing us tO wander in search Of our Other half: "SO ancient is the desire Of one another WhiCh iS implanted in us, reuniting our original nature, making one Of tWO and healing the state Of man. While romantic, this has done an awful lot of damage: creating impossible-to-meet expectations; making people think that a happy, healthy relationship isn't good enough; and tricking people into holding out for "the one. ” l've experienced that feeling oflove at first sight that signifies encountering one's soul mate. lt was magical, and then, quite quickly, it dissolved by the sobering light 0f day, thanks t0 the pressures 0f real life. lfthat man was my soul mate, then soul mates are overrated. MY FAVORITE WRITER on the subJect Of soul mates iS J. R. R. ToIkien, who was ⅲ love with his wife Edith from his teens until her death at age 82. He acknowledged that soul mates are pretty good ⅲ theory: "ln such great inevitable love, Often love at first sight, we catch a vision, I suppose, 0f marriage as it should have been in an unfallen world. ” ln a letter tO his son, he presented a far more nuanced and compelling approach t0 what a real soul mate is. Was there someone out there theoretically better suited tO him than Edith? ProbabIy. But so what? "OnIy a very wise man at the end ofhis life could make a sound judgment concerning whom, amongst the total possible chances, he ought most profitably t0 have married' ” T01kien wrote. "Nearly all marriages, even h 叩 py ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly ()n a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) b0th partners might have found more suitable mates. ” Tolkien blamed our obsession with soul mates on the 16 TIME May29, 2017 FINDING THEONE 88 % Percentage Of Americans whO cited love as a very important reason tO get married, according tO a Pew study; the second biggest reason: mak- ing a lifelong commitment 3.2 Number of divorces and annulments per 1 , 000 tOtal population that tOOk place in 2014 , according to the CDC, as the nationwide divorce rate continued tO drop Romantic chivalric tradition: "lts weakness is, Of course, that it began as an artificial courtly game , a way 0f enjoying love for its own sake . lt takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye Off women as they are ”—that is, "companions in shipwreck not guiding stars. ” I love that: companions in ship- wreck. True soul mates are made, not born. This tracks with what I see ⅲ long-lasting marriages. lt take s time for many Of even the most loving cou- ples to feel like kindred spirits. lt isn't something that happens ⅲ the first hour, or even the first year. lt takes time, and patience, and commitment. "HE'S VERY EFFICIENT; ” one woman I know said, looking at her husband with so much affection that I felt like I was intruding. "And I procrastinate. We used to fight about it all the time, but now we just work around each other. He lets me sit there and drink coffee in the morning while he bustles around. when we're on vacation, we spend one day the way he wants to —usually getting up e arly and driving t0 eve ry bakery in town— and the next day the way I want t0— sleeping in, strolling. We take care 0f each other. But we had tO learn that, how t0 sync up. Another friend told me that his tradition-minded parents , an adorable couple who 叩 peared t0 the outside world to be soul mates, didn't have much to bind them together when they married : “ She was Jewish, and he had a good job. That was enough. ” They struggled while their kids were growing up, resolving t0 stay together until the nest was empty and then go their separate ways. But something funny happened: by the time the children were grown, neither wanted to leave. Our Old notion Of soul mates is Never Give Wedding Toasts I'II Ofthe new memoir Calhoun is the author married tO. one YO u are actually Tolkien wrote, "is the not helpful. "The 'real soul-mate, (*,alh()tlli

TheView ・ WHENIHEAR A PRESIDENT SAY HE DOESN'T TRUSTFEDERAL NUMBERS OR THEY'RE MADE UP, I'M CONCERNED. ' —NEXT PAGE POLITICS Why the Census matters now more than ever By HaIey SweetIand Edwards THE QUESTION OF HOWMANYMEN, women and children live within our borders seems an academic one. A factoid, easily answered by the U. S. Census Bureau, which, by constitutional decree, updates its tally every decade using an army Of635 , 000 enumerators ” whO are employed tO walk door-to-door, clipboards ⅲ hand. Of course, the Census results are more than trivia. They inform the very foundation Of our electoral process: how state and federal political districts are drawn; WhiCh Americans are counted for representation; and how federal dollars, many ofwhich are allocated per capita, are spent. "lt is vital, it is critical, that the public has confidence in the Census, says Terri Ann Lowenthal, a former staff director ofthe House Census PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION BY MARIAANTONIETTA MAMELI Oversight Subcommittee. "Anything that compromises that compromises the whole mission. And so when Census Bureau director JOhn Thompson announced on May 9 that he will leave his post at the end ofJune, it caused a stir. Thompson whO served at the bureau for more than 30 years, was expected tO stay on through 2017. But colleagues say he was hobbled by intense pressure from Congress about COSt overruns 0 Ⅱ a new lnternet-based questionnalre and by Commerce S ecretary Wilbur ROSS'S wavermg confidence in him. ln a statement tO TIME, the Commerc Department, which oversees the Census, declined t0 elaborate. ) Regardless Ofthe reason for Thompson's exit, his departure leavesl the bureau rudderless, .not only in the 13

found that Moscow's agents bought ads on Faceb00kt0 target specific populations with propaganda. "They buy the ads, where it says SPONSORED BY—they dO that just as much as anybody else does; ” says the senior intelligence 0 伍 cial. (A Faceb00k offcial says the company has no evidence 0f that occurring. ) The ranking Democrat on the Senate lntelligence Committee, Mark Warner 0fVirginia, has said he is looking into why, for example, four ofthe top five Google search results the day the U. S. released a report on the 2016 operation were links tO Russia's TV propaganda arm, RT. (Google says it saw no meddling ⅲ this case. ) Researchers at the University 0f Southern California, meanwhile, found that nearly 20 % of political tweets ⅲ 2016 between Sept. 16 and Oct. 21 were generated by bots 0f unknown orlgin; investigators are trying tO figure out hOW many were Russian. As they dig into the viralizing of such stories, congressional investigations are probing notjust Russia's role but whether Moscow had help from the Trump campaign. Sources familiar with the investigations say they are probing tWO Trump-linked organizations: Cambridge Analytica, a data-analytics company hired by the campaign that is partly owned by deep-pocketed Trump backer R0bert Mercer; and Breitbart News, the right- wing website formerly run by Trump's top political adviser Stephen Bannon. The congressional investigators are looking at ties between those companies and right-wing web personalities based ⅲ Eastern Europe whO the U. S. believes are Russian fronts, a source familiar with the investigations tells TIME. "N0b0dy can prove it yet," the source says. ln March, McCIatchy newspapers reported that FBI counterintelligence investigators were probing whether far-right sites like Breit- bart News and lnfowars had c oordinated , INVESTIGATORS ARE PROBING WHETHER 0S00W HAD HELP FROM THE す RU P CAMPAIGN 28 TIME May 29 , 2017 space. The intelligence offcials have Russia plays in every SOCial media a flOOd Of fake news stories. lieving things , and they'll hit him" with might be a little bit slanted toward be- the specific reporter that they find wh0 says the senior intelligence Offcial. "lt's nal or the newspaper or the TV show,' tell TIME. "lt's not necessarily the jour- lar reporters, senior intelligence offcials get the social media accounts ofparticu- using its algorithmic techniques tO tar- ()ff ℃ ialS have seen evidence Of Russia help spread the damaging stories. These election season whO they reasoned would target particular influencers during the picked up evidence that Russia tried tO intelligence offcials, meanwhile, have spread tO specific audiences. Counter- ing at how Russia helped stories like these Congressional investigators are lOOk- pizza parlor. pedophile ring in the basement 0f a D. C. alleging that Clinton and her aides ran a Just before Election Day, a story took off Clinton had murdered a DNC staffer. Pope Francis had endorsed Trump and EIsewhere people invented stories saying at a Sept. 11 event in New York City. from pneumonia and dehydration on a life of its own after Clinton fainted story went viral ⅲ late August, then tOOk that Hillary Clinton had Parkinson's. That ceutical executive Martin Shkreli declared ON AUG. 7 , 2016 , the infamous pharma- favorable to what they want to do. gram [and] t0 see wh0 would be more is more susceptible tO continue this pro- with staffers; ” the offcial says, "t0 see wh0 "The Russians started using it on the Hill the senior intelligence offcial tells TIME. find those who might support their cause, hOW targets responded in an attempt tO cast material on social media andwatched bers ofCongress. Moscow's agents broad- SOCial media tactiCS on key aides tO mem- ers saw Russian agents applying their new erations in the U. S. Americ an spy hunt- they watched Moscow's intelligence op- be tapped without U. S. technology ・ As $ 8.2 trillion in Oil reserves that could not gies tO Russia, putting out Of reach some export 0f drilling and fracking technolo- considered sanctions that would block the April 2014 invasion 0f Ukraine, the U. S. weapons at the U. S. Following Moscow's soon, putin was aiming hiS new with Russian botnets tO blitz social media with anti- Clinton storie s , mixing fact and fiction when Trump was doing poorly in the campaign ・ There are plenty of people who are skeptical 0f such a conspiracy, if one existed. Cambridge Analytica touts its ability tO use algorithms tO microtarget voters, but veteran political operatives have found them ineffective political influencers. Ted Cruz first used their methods during the primary, and his staff ended up concluding they had was d their money. Mercer, Bannon, Breitb rt News and the White House did not answer questions about the congressional probes. A spokesperson for Cambridge Analytica says the company has no ties tO Russia or individuals acting as fronts for Moscow and that it is unaware Ofthe probe. Democratic operatives searching for explanations for Clinton's IOSS after the election investigated social media trends in the three states that tipped the vote for Trump : Michigan,Wisc onsin and Penn- sylvania. ln each they found what they believe is evidence that key SW1ng VOters were being drawn tO fake news stories and anti-Clinton stories online. Google searches for the fake pedophilia story circulating under the hashtag # pizzagate, for example, were disproportionately higher in swing districts and not in dis - tricts likely to vote for Trump. The Democratic operatives created a package ofbackground materials on what they had found, suggesting the search behavior might indicate that someone had successfully altered the behavior in key voting districts in key states. They circulated it to fellowparty members who are up for a VOte in 2018. EVENAS INVESTIGATORS try tO piece tO- gether what h 叩 pened in 2016 , they are worrying about what comes next. Rus- sia claims tO be able tO alter events using cyberpropaganda and is doing what it can tO tout its power. ln February 2016 , a Putin advis er named Andrey Krutskikh compared Russia's information-warfare strategies tO the SOViet Union's obtain- ing a nuclear weapon in the 1940S , David lgnatius 0f the Washington Post reported. "We are at the verge ofhaving something in the information arena which will allow us tO talk tO the Americans as e qual s , Krutskikh s aid.