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In reply to the discussion: How The Russian Social Media Effort Boosted Bernie [View all]Gothmog
(146,337 posts)30. Russian interference sought to boost Bernie Sanders in 2016, Mueller report says
Russia really did its best to help sanders
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The report provides a fresh look at allegations that the Russian-based Internet Research Agency not only interfered in the 2016 campaign on social media on behalf of Donald Trump but also to help Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Internal IRA documents referred to support for the Trump campaign and opposition to candidate Clinton, according to the report. While much of this section of the report is redacted, it cites directions to IRA operators not to harm Sanders.
Main idea: Use any opportunity to criticize Hillary [Clinton] and the rest (except Sanders and Trump we support them), quotes the report.....
While Sanders had said in a previous radio interview that one of his campaign workers figured out what was going on and alerted Clinton campaign officials, his 2016 campaign manager Jeff Weaver told The Post in a recent interview for the story that Sanders misspoke a little bit and conflated a few of the facts. .?.?. He did not know, I did not know, none of us knew that Russia was behind the efforts.
Internal IRA documents referred to support for the Trump campaign and opposition to candidate Clinton, according to the report. While much of this section of the report is redacted, it cites directions to IRA operators not to harm Sanders.
Main idea: Use any opportunity to criticize Hillary [Clinton] and the rest (except Sanders and Trump we support them), quotes the report.....
While Sanders had said in a previous radio interview that one of his campaign workers figured out what was going on and alerted Clinton campaign officials, his 2016 campaign manager Jeff Weaver told The Post in a recent interview for the story that Sanders misspoke a little bit and conflated a few of the facts. .?.?. He did not know, I did not know, none of us knew that Russia was behind the efforts.
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Yeah, that's the same rationale Greenwald and Assange use to justify their actions
BannonsLiver
Apr 2019
#36
Yes...and there are even folks here who are parotting Trump's "We do bad things too" equivocation.
lapucelle
Apr 2019
#58
Just because we (the US) "infiltrated" other elections we should roll over and accept....
George II
Apr 2019
#51
Russian interference sought to boost Bernie Sanders in 2016, Mueller report says
Gothmog
Apr 2019
#30
The spin in the article is Russian Hysteria. Sanders is not responsible and has no need to
jalan48
Apr 2019
#42
Thanks for the heads up dude. I'll keep an eye peeled myself. You never know who's working the
jalan48
Apr 2019
#72
"But Bernie supporters held the 'Hillary 2016 for Prison' signs up at their rallies, too, and
betsuni
Apr 2019
#73