Trump also helped Putin discredit American democracy / He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. elections

[Botany]

He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.

Trump also helped Putin discredit American democracy. That was a major goal of Russia’s 2016 and 2020 operations, the report explains: “Throughout the election, Russia’s online influence actors sought to amplify mistrust in the electoral process by denigrating mail-in ballots, highlighting alleged irregularities, and accusing the Democratic Party of voter fraud.” Trump peddled the same fears. After the election, as “Russian online influence actors continued to promote narratives questioning the election results,” Trump duplicated that message. Russia’s agents also hyped “allegations of social media censorship,” as Trump did.


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The republicans have always known about the help that they and Trump have gotten from Russia. Release the Mueller Report Now!
And I know I am nuttier then a squirrel turd but I have no doubt that there is a connection between Russia/Vlad and Fox News

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

[dalton99a]

1. Donald Trump is a traitor and a criminal.

The IC assessment doesn’t address what Trump knew about the Russian influence campaign. But according to former officials who spoke last fall to the Washington Post and the New York Times, he was directly warned. In a December 2019 conversation, then–national security adviser Robert O’Brien told Trump that Giuliani had been “worked by Russian assets in Ukraine.” Trump shrugged and went on promoting the allegations Giuliani was feeding him. That makes Trump more than a Russian asset. It makes him, in technical terms, an agent of a foreign power.

[Botany]

2. That Giuliani had been "worked by Russian assets in Ukraine."

https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/61c1f928a7fbd7eded598702e31aa8ff?width=1024

And to think they impeached Clinton for a blow job.

[Walleye]

3. Didn't they advise Junior or somebody they should contest the 2016 election if they lost

I think the email said something like we think it would be more interesting if your father refused to accept the results of the election. This was in 2016 before it was decided

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. TFG was Putin's employee of the month for four years

[BSdetect]

5. Surely we could deal with blatant treason much faster than 5 years? Not counting previous years.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. For this thread

Link to tweet

[Botany]

7. Russia's agents also hyped "allegations of social media censorship," as Trump did.

aka "cancel culture."

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Absolutely Comrades GOP

From Richard Painter and Leanne Watt:

House Speaker Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader (and close Trump ally) Kevin McCarthy, and House Majority Whip, Steve Scalise, are also on our list of Republican leaders exhibiting odd behavior in relationship to Trump and Russia. The Washington Post reports that just a month before Trump clinched the Republican nomination, McCarthy was caught on tape talking with a small group of Republican leaders, including Ryan, while making an explosive revelation: “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” Ryan quickly stepped in, warning his colleagues to keep this conversation secret: “This is an off the record… No leaks!” Ryan repeated his warning: “This is how we know we’re a real family here.” Steve Scalise added to the warning: “That’s how you know that we’re tight.” Ryan capped the conversation off with a Vegas-style call for secrecy asserting that “what’s said in the family stays in the family.” While we do not know the specifics of what these three men knew before the election, it is clear that they believed that Trump was being paid by Putin.

https://medium.com/leannewattphd/hidden-motives-behind-key-gop-leaders-cooperation-with-trump-russia-an-evidence-based-bdd5694b7c3b