Let’s be clear: Putin is again trying to put Trump in the White House

The Justice Department outlined elaborate schemes mounted by covert Moscow operators to influence the 2024 campaign.

But in each instance, the feds declined to explicitly state the obvious: The Kremlin efforts have been designed and mounted to aid Trump ’s bid to regain power.

In one case, the Justice Department seized 32 internet domains used in a Russian operation called “ Doppelganger ” to spread disinformation in the U.S ..

Peter Bergen : Tenet Media was posting provocative right-wing material on the US - Mexico border, Ukraine , Black history month, culture wars, and other hot-button issues.

Bergen says documents show the Doppelganger project aimed at Republican voters, Trump supporters, and white Americans .

He says Russia has infected the Republican Party for eight years with denial that Russia has already done in 2016 : They are afraid of Donald Trump .

This is the third American presidential election in a row in which Putin has waged covert information warfare against the United States to help Trump .

David Corn : Even exposure of his plot might not be enough to thwart it.

If Moscow succeeds, it will be not because of any Russian brilliance but due to American decline and weakness, Corn says.