Trump Campaign Staffers Pushed Russian Propaganda Days Before the Election

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast




Kellyanne Conway and Donald Trump Jr. pushed messages from an account operated from Russia’s “troll farm”—including allegations of voter fraud a week before Election Day.

BETSY WOODRUFF
BEN COLLINS
KEVIN POULSEN
SPENCER ACKERMAN

10.18.17 5:51 PM ET

Some of the Trump campaign’s most prominent names and supporters, including Trump’s campaign manager, digital director and son, pushed tweets from professional trolls paid by the Russian government in the heat of the 2016 election campaign.

The Twitter account @Ten_GOP, which called itself the “Unofficial Twitter account of Tennessee Republicans,” was operated from the Kremlin-backed “Russian troll farm,” or Internet Research Agency, a source familiar with the account confirmed with The Daily Beast.

The account’s origins in the Internet Research Agency were originally reported by the independent Russian news outlet RBC. @Ten_GOP was created on November 19, 2015, and accumulated over 100 thousand followers before Twitter shut it down. The Daily Beast independently confirmed the reasons for @Ten_GOP's account termination.

The discovery of the now-unavailable tweets presents the first evidence that several members of the Trump campaign pushed covert Russian propaganda on social media in the run-up to the 2016 election.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-staffers-pushed-russian-propaganda-days-before-the-election

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Traitors, belong in prison

[Liberalagogo]

5. I'd love all of them to be

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on Death Row for treason and when they all start whining about it, say, "well, you knew what you were getting into."

[George II]

9. Excellent point. They ALL knew what they were getting into, but they were so smug and thought....

...the election and the government were their own private business and could get away with anything.

[procon]

2. Drip. Drip. Drip. Closer and closer. nt

[Gothmog]

3. There was collusion between trump and russia

[yardwork]

4. Tweets from that account were posted on DU too.

The entire article at the link is worth the read. From the article:

Last March the account was one of the most active in promoting WikiLeaks’ first big release of CIA documents, using the occasion to float the false claim that the so-called “Vault 7” documents acquitted Russia in the hack of the Democratic National Committee.

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. I'd like nothing better to watch KAC smirk be wiped off her fake botoxed face.

And see her be charged with something. And then be blackballed forever on the MSM. Don't see it happening but that would be a day of celebration.

[riversedge]

7. Seb Gorka, Ann Coulter, others retweeted the vile crap on Obama and Hillary.

[George II]

8. "No collusion" My skinny ass there was no collusion.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Not too bright are they?