The indictment, prepared by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, claimed that “operations to interfere with the US political system” began in 2014, with Russians using fake social media accounts to target USA audiences and “traveling to the United States under false pretenses” to collect intelligence. “So why didn’t he do something about Russian meddling?” Four people connected to Trump’s campaign have been indicted already, including two who have pleaded guilty, and there may be more to come.
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Obama encouraged Trump to “stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes”. How else could Trump have possibly won?
That statement earned him PolitiFact’s 2017 Lie of the Year.
The social media company plans to mail out verification postcards through United States postal service to anyone purchasing ads related to USA election, according to a report from Reuters. “What about the totally biased and dishonest Media coverage in favor of Crooked Hillary?”
Maybe it didn’t, or maybe it did – Facebook estimates that on its platform alone, 126 million Americans were exposed to Russian-connected political communications during the 2016 campaign.
“Nothing we found contradicts the Special Counsel’s indictments”, it said. “I guess the final numbers are now at 306”. But her name and phone number were included in a Facebook post promoting the event without her permission.
One of Trump’s advisers, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, on television had accused Democrats of “cheating” in elections.
In a December 2016 interview with Time magazine, the president-elect said, “I don’t believe they interfered”. “That became a laughing point, not a talking point, a laughing point”. But they always blame Russian Federation. “Sources or even individuals”.
Trump is no longer saying the Russian meddling is a “hoax” – as he did for months.
The US indictment of Prigozhin, nicknamed “Putin’s cook” because of his catering business that has organised banquets for the Russian leader and other senior political figures, is uncomfortable for the Kremlin.
Smith, who has often challenged Trump despite the president’s frequent praise of Fox News, tore down the president’s tweets about the Russian Federation investigation and how Trump littered attacks on many officials, including those within his administration, but not Russian Federation. “You’re going to start talking about Syria and the Ukraine”. Prigozhin has denied any involvement in election meddling.
“We have been tough, we have been measured, we have been smart and appropriate in dealing with Russian Federation”.
“The President Obama quote just before election”, Trump said in a subsequent tweet. Tuesday, citing a report he had apparently seen on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends”, Trump criticized Obama’s foreign policy towards Russian Federation.
“As far as hacking, I think it was Russian Federation”, he said. “So we still insist, we think such evidence lacks foundation, we don’t think it’s in any case comprehensive, we don’t think it’s fair and we can’t agree with it. Russian Federation has never interfered, doesn’t have the habit of interfering in the domestic affairs of other countries, and is not doing it now”.
Pressed on his apparent acceptance of the intelligence agencies’ findings, Trump backpedaled. It means more than you know. But the intelligence community report on Russia’s interference also stated the Russians had concluded “that Secretary Clinton was likely to win the election”. The Russian influence campaign was part of something called “Project Lakhta”, which “had multiple components, some involving domestic audiences within the Russian Federation and others targeting foreign audiences in various countries, including the United States”.
We rate this claim trousers on Fire!
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So Russia did meddle in the election.
