Rudy Giuliani hasn’t kept his gaslight under a bushel, but may get prosecuted, not for his quasi-espionage or actions supporting Trump’s re-election, but simply for defrauding the US Treasury. x To get the amount of money Giuliani did, business owners must prove payroll expenses between $720,000 and $1.68 million in 2019. Giuliani is the CEO —…
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Russian disinformation does its triggering, because Trump will count on the faithless
Expect more of this, because fire-starting and gaslight come from major arsonists. NYT: A video of a Bible burning in Portland that was amplified by conservatives originated with a Kremlin-backed video news agency. The video now appear to be one of the first viral Russian disinformation hits of the 2020 presidential campaign. https://t.co/fArdppcPkl — Kyle…
It's still #TrumpRussia: Russian Federation aiming to “denigrate” Biden ahead of election
Flaws and all, The Mueller Report. like the Steele Dossier remains a foundational source for the current mischief that will flood the disinformation channels until election day. Because “Kremlin-linked actors.”. BREAKING: China would prefer Trump not win reelection, seeing him as 'unpredictable,' while Russia is seeking to damage Biden candidacy, intelligence official says https://t.co/NKWNC2Uqak — Greg Miller (@gregpmiller)…
KY-Sen: Amy McGrath (D), “What did Mitch know & when did he know it about Russian bounties?”
Received this e-mail today from Amy McGrath’s (D. KY) U.S. Senate campaign: x American servicemembers are being targeted with Russian bounties. As a Marine, I'm disgusted that nothing's been done about it. Mitch, you get regular security briefings. What did you know and when did you know it? Man up and tell the truth. #MoscowMitch—…
The Lincoln Project addresses you in Russian
with appropriate subtitles, in a new ad titled “Fellow Traveler” Given the title, the fact that Putin thinks the greatest tragedy of the 20th Century was the fall of the USSR, his role as a KGB figure, and supported by the music of the ad, this is another winner. Oh, and for those of you…
GOP discredits 2020 scrutiny of Russian election intervention by making us relive 2016
We should not get fatigued since there are only 185 days left. The GOP will go Benghazi/Hunter Biden until the election, even as with the attempt to free Flynn. it will only reveal all those Russian connections dispersed among the GOP. The GOP senate subpoenas will be greater nuisances as the Fall approaches. Exactly https://t.co/G2QuwbJRSP…
The slow slide back to 2016 as Trump retweets Russian bots in a 52+ tweet day
Leana Wen identifies six reasons motivating the WH and GOP to reanimate the economy and their logical fallacies seem to follow so easily. They have been and will continue to be reproduced as memes in GOP and Trump tweets. x In reopening against public-health guidance, we have effectively decided to give up on trying to…
Obama Told GOP To F*** Off With Their Attempt To Boost Russian Disinformation To Smear Joe Biden
Fuck yeah: The office of former president Barack Obama privately blasted a congressional investigation into former vice president Joe Biden and his son, as well as alleged Ukrainian election interference, calling it an effort “to give credence to a Russian disinformation campaign,” according to a letter obtained by BuzzFeed News. In March, Obama’s office told…
Russian GRU hackers return for Trump's Ukraine conspiracy theory, interfering in 2020 election
The disinformation persists as Trump’s “perfect” shake down conversation with Ukraine president Zelensky only appears to be unrelated to the actual Russian hacking campaigns that helped elect him. They might also be on the path of “exonerating” him. We’ve returned to 2016, as the same Russian military intelligence GRU continues its campaign to help Trump in…
Russian GRU hackers return for Trump's Ukraine conspiracy theory, interfering in 2020 election
The disinformation persists as Trump’s “perfect” shake down conversation with Ukraine president Zelensky only appears to be unrelated to the actual Russian hacking campaigns that helped elect him. They might also be on the path of “exonerating” him. We’ve returned to 2016, as the same Russian military intelligence GRU continues its campaign to help Trump in…
Russian oligarch money and the GOP: 2016 repeats itself as the receipts are finally arriving
The FBI has received Spanish wiretaps from an investigation of Russian money laundering through NRA that implicates Donald Trump Jr. Then there’s the money that GOP leadership received including the transfers made during the GOP convention. x Oligarch Len Blavatnik in 2016 gave Trumps pac $7.35 million. Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham, Scott Walker…
Russian support for Rudy's “investigations” in Ukraine also included disinformation
A new Washington Post article describes the mechanics of disinformation underlying portions of the smear campaign to which Rudy Giuliani claimed credit as a private citizen working for Trump. Colludy or Conspiry? 'I needed #Yovanovitch out of the way' so malign actors in Arms for Dirt created fake lists The story that appeared on The Hill website…
impeachment: Third time's a (c)harm as Russian state-TV jokes about Trump fleeing
Of course nothing happened when Sergey Lavrov visited Trump even if they don’t agree on whether they discussed election interference. Sometimes a picture doesn’t have to be worth a thousand words. Just a few will do. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned home from his visit with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office…
'Puppet Master and Agent': Russian state TV openly mocks Trump
How is it that everyone in America is skeptical of Russia’s intentions except the very people who for decades have had the most jaundiced view of the country? Now we have a pr*sident who openly favors Vladimir Putin at the expense of Ukraine, and they’re actively attempting to cover up our rascally Russian agent’s crimes….
Evil Corp is of course, a Russian cyber-crime organization – Trump lifted sanctions on its companies
Surprising that it’s not connected to the Shreks’ company, “Fraud Guarantee”, and yet sanctions got removed from related Russian companies. Individual-1 Trump obeys his masters, even if there are a lot of folks with similar names. Lavrov may have ordered Trump to *remove immediately* three Russian ‘companies’ connected with Evil Corp cyber ops; and they’re…
The GOP is now the party of Russian disinformation; Sen. John Kennedy is the latest dupe
During the impeachment hearings last week, I kind of wanted Fiona Hill to float down from the ceiling after the lunch break like Mary Poppins and spank the ever-living crap out of Gym Jordan and Devin Nunes. Or maybe give them a royal death glare and intone, “We are not amused.” Or morph into the first…
GOP: an entire party of cheap dates for Russian money #MoscowMarsha
#MoscowMarsha trends after GOP Senator Blackburn accuses Alexander "Vindictive Vindman" of being whistleblower's "handler" https://t.co/pYcJt9mstV — Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 22, 2019 A sitting United States Senator is trying to shade an American hero, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. ICYMI, this highly-decorated Veteran shed blood on the battlefield for us. #MoscowMarsha should be ASHAMED of herself. pic.twitter.com/FWFF1PF8ws…
Nicolle Wallace: 'It's gonna take a dead Russian hooker' for Republicans to wake up
So if the impeachment hearings have proved anything, it’s that congressional Republicans — after endless (and fruitless) Benghazi and email server investigations — don’t really care about official misconduct after all. Kind of like the deficit only mattered when a Democrat was in the White House. Now high crimes and misdemeanors might as well be ice…
Julia Davis Clues Us In on what Russian Media is Saying About Trump Abandoning the Kurds.
Julia Davis is an expert on Russian disinformation techniques and Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic Council’s Disinformation Portal. In one of her regular columns for The Daily Beast, published yesterday, she highlights the gleeful responses of Russians to drumpf’s backstabbing of the Syrian Kurds. “President Trump has boasted he’s “getting a lot of praise” for his…
Trump warms the climate for a large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine
“Today Putin-puppet Trump condemned ‘corrupt’ Ukraine, ordered US withdrawal in Syria, cancelled Open Skies.” Pulling out of the Open Skies treaty may blind some aspects of monitoring Russian militarization of the Ukrainian conflict, as Trump does more of Putin’s bidding. x The Trump administration is pulling out of the Open Skies Treaty, which allows the United States…
