This topic received some coverage in September 2018 when the Executive Order was signed, but given events of the past two months – and the outcome of the election — the issue may become explosive in the weeks ahead.
On September 12, 2019, President Trump signed Executive Order 13848 titled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.” Looking at the issue in retrospect at the time the EO was put into place, most would have focused attention on the Russians or Iranians in terms of who the EO might have been aimed at.
But now, given Joe Biden’s nomination as the Democrat candidate for President, the well-established history of business and financial connections between the Biden Family and the Communist Chinese Party, and the aggressive posture of the Trump Administration in responding to Chinese business and technology espionage, the focus of this EO is going to focus squarely on any Chinese efforts to influence – or corrupt – the recent Presidential election.
With that backdrop, let’s consider for a moment what EO 13484 requires over the course of the next 75 days…
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