Russian Operative Said 'We Made America Great' After Trump's Win
Source: Bloomberg
Kremlin-directed operatives opened champagne when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, according to a communication disclosed in a new Senate Intelligence Committee report outlining Russias sweeping social media efforts to help him win.
We uncorked a tiny bottle of champagne ... took one gulp each and looked into each others eyes .... We uttered almost in unison: We made America great, one operative at the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency said in the message obtained by the Republican-led committee.
The long-pending report by the Intelligence panel concluded that Russia directed an aggressive social media campaign to hurt Democrat Hillary Clinton and help Trump in the 2016 presidential election and warns similar efforts to interfere in U.S. politics are still under way. It was a bipartisan endorsement of the finding made by U.S. intelligence agencies and often questioned by Trump.
The report, two years in the making, found that the Internet Research Agency was overtly and almost invariably supportive of then-candidate Trump to the detriment of Secretary Clintons campaign. As part of that effort, it targeted African-Americans through social media more than any other group.
Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, said the Russian interference campaign hasnt ended and other adversaries are engaged in similar attacks.
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Mike 03
(16,616 posts)I sure as hell hope Stephen Miller gives him this news tonight. Unlikely he'll see it on Fox, but you never know.
Initech
(100,076 posts)They know our government is now a dumpster fire and there's nothing that can be done to impeach or remove the treasonous asswipe. Fuck you Russia.
Botany
(70,508 posts)...our elections.
'U.S. spies slept' while Russia elected Trump, Russian politician says
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/09/12/russian-politician-american-intelligence-slept-russia-elected-president/660297001/
Two new users showed up as registered administrators of the website: larisa@steamreal.ru and ewartumba@mail.ru. The .ru suffix indicates a Russian origin, Benson said. The profile pages of the users had characters in the Russian alphabet in "Address" and "About Me" fields, she said.
Code was entered, apparently through a back door, to add two registered users, but the website is set up to automatically block new registrants, so the intruders could do no damage. "It's not clear how they got there," Benson said.
The intruders could just as easily have removed all trace of having been there and just backed quietly out, but they chose to leave their names as if to say we can get in whenever we want, Benson said.
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/01/23/russians-suspected-hacking-local-dems/96965824/
The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)was all that was done and that vote totals were changed in WI, MI, PA, FL and NC, and Probably in GA.