An election disinformation campaign via another Russia hoax
The Biden administration accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of orchestrating a covert campaign to influence the coming U.S. presidential election and erode international support for Ukraine, blaming the Kremlin for targeting American voters with political propaganda and disinformation.The influence campaign, which American spy agencies have concluded is aiming to help Republican nominee Donald Trump reclaim the White House, involved Putin’s inner circle and included a scheme to surreptitiously bankroll an American media startup and direct Russian public-relations companies to promote state-sponsored narratives to influence the presidential race. Another Russia hype/hoax before a presidential election. Four times in the last four presidential elections, Democrats & the media make issues of Russia and its threat to our elections. Yet, looking at those four elections, they can't even get straight what they think about Russia. - 2008, make fun of McCain / Palin because of their belief that Russia is a threat - 2012, make fun of Mitt Romney because he says Russia is a threat - 2016, accuse and then try to convict Trump of collusion with Russia because they are such a threat. This is later dropped and determined untrue. - 2020, again, shamelessly accuse Russia of supporting Trump's re-election with election interference. And, now in 2024, they resurface the Russian election threat, targeting the Trump campaign as the supposed beneficiary. Russia is supposed to have spent $10M on X, Instagram, YouTube & others. In 2020, Zuckerberg & Bloomberg spent upwards of $1B dollars on the Biden campaign, and someone thinks Russia spending $10M is going to have a impact? No, this is part of a tired, coordinated, disinformation campaign including US media, US government and Democrat campaign officials.
- For example, The Wall Street Journal noted last week that:
In the past 51 days, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, USA Today, the Associated Press and CNN (twice) have run stories, based on often anonymous Biden intelligence briefers, suggesting Russia backs Mr. Trump. Understand: Russian propaganda and social-media efforts are real but trivial in effect, unless magnified by U.S. news outlets to soil the candidate of their choice. The Russians understand this. So do U.S. officials. The Obama intelligence leadership testified that the Russians were “loud” in their activities because it was our reaction to their activities that produced the desired chaos. Keep an eye on any follow-up to the recent FBI raids on the homes of gadflies Scott Ritter and Dimitri Simes, American commentators on Russia’s barely watched international TV service. But details are irrelevant when headlines about the raids now can be used to damage Mr. Trump. But also understand: Ms. Harris is merely the available instrument since Mr. Biden stepped aside. The chain of causation actually begins with FBI chief James Comey’s foolish, improper intervention in the 2016 race, which inadvertently helped Mr. Trump.
- NBC got into that act in February, Russia’s 2024 election interference has already begun.
- Also, a few days ago, Politico ran an article about Hacking blind spot: States struggle to vet coders of election software, with ties to Russia.
- And, today, USA Today reports that Putin says he was going to support Biden, but since he is not running he would support Harris!
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