A spokesperson for the Communist Bernie Sanders campaign declined to comment on the briefing by U.S. officials on Russia’s attempts to help the Sanders campaign.
Ah, I love it, first the Democrats tried to attach
Russia!! Russia!! Russia!! to Donald Trump, for 3.5 years I might add, and now they are trying to do the same to Communist Bernie Sanders. Russia has always been the political porn for the Democrats, the place where they just love to spend their time. Democrats cannot seem to get enough of Russian oligarchs, KGB spies, and all the rest of that junk. But it let's you know where thier mind is, and as such, and excellent warning flag for American patriots.
Democrats have become the despots they claim to fight against, just as
ANTIFA is one of the most fascist groups you will ever come across. They dream of a world where all the babies are murdered on their due dates, where no one makes more money than anyone else (
except for the leaders of course), and where everyone has an equal share of the misery that comes with Socialist and Communist regimes. Go to any Communist country right now, any one of them, they are all hell-holes, the eternal violators of a free people, the very republic of Satan himself.
It's great watching Comrade Sanders desperately trying to spin this latest revelation, forced to do the
Democrat Damage Control Dance, and a great reminder to me why I am once again voting for Donald Trump. It's not even close.
Bernie Sanders briefed by U.S. officials that Russia is trying to help his presidential campaign
FROM MSN NEWS: President Trump and lawmakers on Capitol Hill have also been informed about the Russian assistance to the Vermont senator, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
It is not clear what form that Russian assistance has taken. U.S. prosecutors found a Russian effort in 2016 to use social media to boost Bernie Sanders campaign against Hillary Clinton, part of a broader effort to hurt Clinton, sow dissension in the American electorate and ultimately help elect Donald Trump.
“I don’t care, frankly, who Putin wants to be president,” Sanders said in a statement to The Washington Post. “My message to Putin is clear: stay out of American elections, and as president I will make sure that you do.
“In 2016, Russia used internet propaganda to sow division in our country, and my understanding is that they are doing it again in 2020. Some of the ugly stuff on the internet attributed to our campaign may well not be coming from real supporters.”
A spokesperson for the Sanders campaign declined to comment on the briefing by U.S. officials on Russia’s attempts to help the Sanders campaign.
Sanders’s opponents have blamed some of his most vocal online supporters for injecting toxic rhetoric into the primaries. At a Democratic candidates debate in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Sanders indirectly blamed Russia, saying it was possible malign actors were trying to
manipulate social media to inflame divisions among Democrats.
“All of us remember 2016, and what we remember is efforts by Russians and others to try to interfere in our elections and divide us up,” Sanders said. “I’m not saying that’s happening, but it would not shock me.”
Also this week, a senior U.S. intelligence official said that Russia had “developed a preference” for Trump in the 2020 campaign — an assessment that infuriated the president. Trump lambasted his acting intelligence director, Joseph Maguire, and DNI staff for sharing that information with lawmakers, believing that Democrats would use it to hurt Trump in the election.
Despite Trump’s skepticism of Russian efforts to damage American democracy, officials in his administration have repeatedly warned that Russia has ongoing plans to interfere in U.S. elections and foster divisions among Americans, part of a strategic goal to undermine U.S. standing in the world. Some analysts believe that the Kremlin’s goal is to cause the maximum disruption within the United States, and it throws the support of its hackers and trolls behind candidates based on that goal, not any particular affinity for the persons running.
After Sanders’s remarks at the debate, some social media analysts were skeptical of the notion that Russians were already masquerading as the candidate’s supporters.
“We have seen no evidence in open sources during this election cycle that an online community of Sanders supporters, known as Bernie bros, were catalyzed by what Sanders suggested could be ‘Russian interference,’” said Graham Brookie, director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council, which tracks disinformation on social media sites. “Any candidate or public official casually introducing the possibility of Russian influence without providing any evidence or context creates a specter of interference that makes responding to real interference harder.”
It now appears, however, that Sanders may have had a reason to suspect Russia was again injecting itself into the U.S. electoral process, repeating some of what occurred in 2016.
In a February 2018 indictment of 13 Russian individuals and three companies that were alleged to have orchestrated the social media scheme, prosecutors alleged that the group “engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump.”
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