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> "Russia influenced the 2016 election" = some guy with a distant relationship to the Russian govt bought some really crappy Facebook ads in Florida. I'm not s
by 49874539 3y ago
> "Russia influenced the 2016 election" = some guy with a distant relationship to the Russian govt bought some really crappy Facebook ads in Florida.
I'm not sure this is true. I'd highly recommend reading the Muller report. It provides a lot of detailed, specific, evidence of direct communication with the Russian government.
- pphysch 3y agoNo it does not. Have you actually read it?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agohttps://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download > The Internet Research Agency (IRA) carried out the earliest Russian interference operations identified by the investigation—a social media campaign designed to provoke and amplify political and social discord in the United States. > At the same time that the IRA operation began to focus on supporting candidate Trump in early 2016, the Russian government employed a second form of interference: cyber intrusions (hacking) and releases of hacked materials damaging to the Clinton Campaign > On June 9, 2016, senior representatives of the Trump Campaign met in Trump Tower with a Russian attorney expecting to receive derogatory information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government
- pphysch 3y agoNone of those constitute "direct communication [of Trump team] with the Russian government".