So much for the fake news story run by the New York Times and Washington Post yesterday about the Russians trying to help Trump win a second term. It turns out the Russians are really trying to help Comrade Bernie Sanders (who honeymooned in the USSR) win. Communists love communists and Sanders’ campaign has been briefed about the Russian interference.
U.S. officials have told Sen. Bernie Sanders that Russia is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic contest, according to people familiar with the matter. Don’t count on much if any coverage about this Russian interference by the corrupt media. It’s only bad when they do it for Trump.
Bernie Sanders is a Russian asset!
| Russia actually trying to help Comrade Sanders win presidential election |
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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 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. .