Discussion: Senate Witness: Rubio, Ryan Were Targets Of Russian Influence Attempts

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How interesting that we hear nothing of Dr. Jill Stein being the subject of hacks and embarrassing disclosures…

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The Russians wasted their money going after Little Marco. He was never going to win.

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This one minute clip will help to explain why Putin does not like Rubio:

The only time Rubio said anything I agree with.

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Rubio will be apologizing to Putin shortly.

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Great. So now all those people showing up at town halls will be labeled Russian infiltrators. Awesome.

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she is small fry…

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" …Senator Rubio, in my opinion, you anecdotally suffered through these efforts."

That’s too funny! Why would the Rooskies be concerned about having a President Rube? All they’d have to do would be to dangle some shiny gold coins in front of him and he’d become Putin’s lap dog.

Fetch Rubio, FETCH!

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Sure, that, and she is a Putin ally…

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Seriously, it is amazing and horrifying to listen to Clint Watts describe how the Russians do this, particularly how they target individual voters with fake news and how they have used Trump for many years to repeat their fake news.

“Cyber expert drops Senate intel bombshell: Russia targets Trump with fake news because he’ll repeat it”

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Why is that interesting? Jill Stein was a meaningless player in what has been going on with Russia hacking our election.

Listen to today’s testimony of Clint Watts and you’ll have a better understanding of what the Russians are doing all over the world to hack elections. It is frightening stuff.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/cyber-expert-drops-senate-intel-bombshell-russia-targets-trump-with-fake-news-because-hell-repeat-it/

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But hey, keep supporting Trump, guys. Tax Cuts Over Country!

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The parallels with Watergate are dumb; this is MUCH MUCH BIGGER. Watergate didn’t involve foreign powers, it was limited in scope. This is a multi-tentacled octopus.

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I’ve been waiting for some journalist to find out that she, like Mike Flynn, was a paid actor in the 2016 debacle. Her ballot presence was way too convenient in those swing states where Drumpf won by less than he total vote haul. There was even some gossip about an agreement between Drumpf and her that he complained about.

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Jill Stein was a meaningless player

Remember those swing states that put Trump in the WH by such a narrow margin? In every case, the margin that Trump had over Clinton was smaller than the vote count for third party candidates.

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Was Gary Johnson a Russian mole too?

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FWIW:

“The FBI and NYPD Joint Organized Crime Task Force have arrested ten men in New York City today on charges of running a racketeering conspiracy as part of an organized crime effort. What’s notable is that these men and their crime family have alleged ties to the Russian mafia and to Donald Trump – raising the question of whether this move was made as part of the FBI’s ongoing investigation into Trump and Russia.”

“An official for the Russian Interior Ministry has reportedly been shot
and killed in Moscow, which would make him the eleventh prominent
Russian to die under suspicious circumstances since the beginning of
Donald Trump’s Russia scandal. Radio Free Europe is reporting that the
Interfax news agency believes Nikolai Volkov was just murdered. Russian
state police are labeling it a robbery, but they have a history of
falsely blaming political murders on non-political circumstances.”

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It’s not necessary for either of them to have been working actively with Russia to prevent Clinton from winning. All that was needed was an aggressive Russian troll campaign supporting them as anti-establishment while denigrating Clinton.

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Unfortunately, Sanders supporters were targeted by Trump’s accomplices in Eastern Europe and Russia.

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The Russians don’t care. Their aim was to fill the entire campaign cycle with baseless propaganda. Rubio was the perfect venue for that mission. Ryan, too.

I find it most peculiar how Republicans are so easily manipulated to fall for fake news and Russian propaganda. Not surprising at all. Just peculiar.

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