To me, this story is the biggest political issue out there. It gets to the heart of trump's popularity with certain segments of the population who follow this stuff online and are ABLE TO VOTE! YouTube podcasts and these online 'gamer' chat forums get their funding AND THEIR SCRIPTS (!) from professionals in Russia. It's all anti-Democrat, pro-MAGA and pro-Putin from the reports, and the Republican National Committee is basically a subsidiary of the Russians behind this. I'd love to read more about it, but it broke on Sept. 4, and as of today, Sat. Sept. 7th, I couldn't even find it in the Washington Post. It was buried deep on Sept 5, banished to the Media section of the paper on Sept. 6, and gone by Sept. 7. I guess it would expose the Ron Johnson's and Marjorie T Greene's of our 'Congress' to be virtually Unregistered Foreign Agents of the Kremlin, and we can't have that!
And the Tenet - RT - Putin propaganda story:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/doj-alleges-russia-funded-company-linked-social-media-stars/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/06/7-republicans-tenet-media-russia-podcast/75091650007/
Here's the Fox News coverage. "they say they were victims."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/conservative-influencers-linked-company-russian-election-influence-case-speak-out-say-theyre-victims
John LeCarre would have loved this story!
To me, this story is the biggest political issue out there. It gets to the heart of trump's popularity with certain segments of the population who follow this stuff online and are ABLE TO VOTE! YouTube podcasts and these online 'gamer' chat forums get their funding AND THEIR SCRIPTS (!) from professionals in Russia. It's all anti-Democrat, pro-MAGA and pro-Putin from the reports, and the Republican National Committee is basically a subsidiary of the Russians behind this. I'd love to read more about it, but it broke on Sept. 4, and as of today, Sat. Sept. 7th, I couldn't even find it in the Washington Post. It was buried deep on Sept 5, banished to the Media section of the paper on Sept. 6, and gone by Sept. 7. I guess it would expose the Ron Johnson's and Marjorie T Greene's of our 'Congress' to be virtually Unregistered Foreign Agents of the Kremlin, and we can't have that!
Lock 'em all up
Indeed!