The only thing missing from the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Justice Department's election news conference about another "Russia! Russia! Russia!" operation was Lucy and her football.
The top echelon of the DOJ — Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Chris Wray, Deputy DOJ Director Lisa Monaco, and others — were arrayed around a conference table at an Election Threats Task Force meeting last week to unveil their information operation whose purpose is to interfere in the upcoming election. The result was to malign powerful right-of-center, Trump-supporting commentators by calling their words the product of malign influence.
If someone from another country had pulled this deep-state stunt against Kamala Harris for example, they would have been rolled up for election interference, but in this case, the DOJ did it and it was intended to hurt Donald Trump, so it was completely fine.
There were indictments against Russian people who will never see the inside of a U.S. courtroom, just like when Robert Mueller and Acting Attorney General Rod "I'll Wear a Wire" Rosenstein previously indicted Russian individuals and "troll farms" for touting election messages. That embarrassment ended in disaster for the DOJ two years later, in 2020, when one of the companies named in the indictment answered the charges and demanded pretrial discovery. The charges against the accused troll farm Concord Management were later dropped with prejudice.
In the current case, two Russians who live in Russia and who will never be extradited to the U.S. to face charges were indicted on Foreign Agent Registration Act and money laundering charges. They produced and sponsored content that spouted a variety of points of view to further "Russia's interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition to core Government of Russia interests, such as its ongoing war in Ukraine," according to the DOJ.
This is bad because differing points of view are never uttered in America and any message differing with the Biden Administration about the war in Ukraine must naturally be the product of a malign intent.
"RT and its employees, including Kostianthyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva" used their influence to spread $10,000,000 through shell companies to a U.S. organization we later learned was called Tenet Media. This company paid and sponsored American commentators to commentate on topics on which they usually comment. We later learned these individuals included Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, and others I've never heard of.
These commentators were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do content that Tenet used. All three of the most popular commentators said they were surprised to learn the money was from Russia and that Tenet victimized and duped them. In his defense, many familiar with Benny already know that you don't have to pay much money for him to get up Trump's a**. They're connected to the Russkies now by the breadcrumbs the DOJ left.
WIRED went through many of the videos and discovered that the top six topics were the Supreme Court, United States, Secret Service, TikTok, law enforcement, and the White House. The most common "two-word phrases are 'white people,' 'Black people,' 'civil war,' 'free speech,' 'Secret Service,' 'illegal immigrants,' 'Second Amendment,' and 'Elon Musk.'" And other word groupings were, "'World War III,' 'great original content,' 'Black Lives Matter,' 'diversity equity inclusion,'" and words about GamerGate 2.0. In other words, this was the usual libertarian to conservative fodder.
The DOJ also shuttered 32 websites that mirrored legitimate websites. I'll bet you didn't know that the Washington Post was one of the domains targeted by this effort that the DOJ called Doppleganger. Shhh, don't tell anyone THE WASHINGTON POST was the victim of malign influence.
No one wants foreign influence in elections. It's why Americans demanded to know why Barack Obama's campaign, for example, failed to filter his fundraising website to reject foreign money.
Russian collusion on video. https://t.co/azCFJA0vmi
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) September 8, 2024
It's why Chinese nations posing as monks/nuns were investigated when they gave Al Gore a bunch of money.
Bill Clinton received $300,000 from Johnny Chung, or, as Rush Limbaugh referred to him, "Secret Asian Man."
Joe Biden has received millions of dollars from his son's business dealings with China, Russia, and several other countries through the family's shell companies. Hunter Biden has never been brought up on money laundering or FARA charges.
It's why we want the SAVE Act to demand proof of citizenship to vote in this country, which has been inundated by millions of illegal aliens who have come to create chaos before the election.
In this latest dumb case, who are the ones taking the PR hit? The victims, the legitimate conservative commentators who support Trump are being hit. They weren't told what to say, but because they got Russian money that they didn't know was Russian money, their messages are now considered malign. See how that works?
In addition, some of the messages supported by the Russkies are non-sensical, such as one dipstick calling for repealing a woman's right to vote. These messages appear to be designed to make Republicans look dumb.
Here's a thought experiment. Wouldn't it be a hoot if the American intelligence community set up an information operation to take influential conservative commentators off the table leading up to the 2024 election?
Naw, that would never happen.
