BUSTED: Russia supported Jill Stein with a social media blitz to help propel Trump to Oval Office

[TheBlackAdder]

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According to a report from NBC, Russian operatives gave a big boost to Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein just before the 2016 election to draw away voters from Democrat Hillary Clinton and boost Donald Trump’s chances of winning the presidency.

NBC claims a report compiled the Senate shows Stein was the subject of a social media blitz designed to raise her profile and create a better playing field for eventual winner Trump.

“Building support for Stein was one of a ‘roster of themes’ the Moscow-sanctioned internet trolls ‘turned to repeatedly’ in their effort to disrupt the election, according to a research team led by the New Knowledge cybersecurity firm,” the report states. “The researchers also found that the campaign to bolster Stein gained in intensity in the final days of the presidential campaign and largely targeted African-American voters.”

Stein has repeatedly denied getting any help from the Russians despite questions about her appearance in Russia at a conference where she was seated at a table with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

More at the jump:

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/busted-russia-supported-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-propel-trump-oval-office/


Gee, really?

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[Iliyah]

1. Corporate media made sure all the negatives and false

narratives poured onto HRC.

[Squinch]

3. Meanwhile, the Stein dupes were all accusing Hillary of being

a "corporatist," a word custom made for them by Russian trolls.

I'll be long dead before they stop writing about the stupidity and duplicity at work in the 2016 election.

[workinclasszero]

9. Yes

The MSM sold us down the river with glee.

[Squinch]

2. Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

[WeekiWater]

4. If the Green Party had an honest, ethical and competent leader...

They would look at people like Sanders, Cortez, and the Tea Party. They are all for the most outsiders who have or are figuring out how to generate change from within. There is no longer doubt that the Green Party’s current leadership is corrupt and void of ethics.

[MineralMan]

5. Unbelieveable? Hardly.

That photo revealed pretty much everything we needed to know about Jill Stein, and Michael Flynn, for that matter. Those who championed Jill Stein, those who voted for her in MI, WI, and PA, and those who were apologists for her on DU were either willing dupes or deliberate conspirators to prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming President.

Some of us said as much at the time. Others, who silently or openly supported Stein, fled this website after the election. A few are still here, though. Shame on all of them. Sitting at a table with Vladimir Putin is not a coincidence. It is evidence. That photo should have been all that was needed to shut Jill Stein out from receiving a single vote.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. I posted the following in the LBN thread on this topic

When Stein ran in 2012, she got about 2100 votes here in Philly. However in 2016, she got almost 7000, literally tripling her count.

In 2012 -

Statewide - 21,341
Philly - 2,162

In 2016 -

Statewide - 49,941
Philly - 6,679

And I expect college kids (and here, the urban colleges like Temple, Penn, Drexel, LaSalle, Community) were targeted as they are the biggest users of social media.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2228688

It may not look like a lot in the scheme of the total votes out of Philly & PA for Hillary, but her loss was literally by only ~44,000 votes statewide. Steals are easiest when they are a little here, a little there, and it all adds up.

[triron]

7. Great stat. Thanks.

[elocs]

8. Here in WI, Stein's vote total was 6000 greater than Trump's margin of victory.

I realize about all of the Russian interference, but come election day and you are a voter on the Left in a swing state, in any state that is not solid red or blue, then the only thing that matters that is left for you to do, the only thing left that matters, is to cast your vote for the candidate of the Democratic Party.

Anybody on the Left who did not do that on election day in any swing state did nothing to help elect Hillary Clinton, did nothing to stop Trump from winning.

[mitch96]

10. The old divide and conquer

JFK's father Joseph P played this little game also. Joseph P backed a dark horse to divide the opposition so his son could win... Old trick but it works..
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[Adrahil]

11. In other news: "Duh!"

JPR butthurt aside, this is the most obvious piece of news ever.