Republican Party, The Pro-Russia Party.
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Yup, these articles have specifics Pre Covid: “Social media bots and Russian trolls have been spreading disinformation about vaccines on Twitter to create social discord and distribute malware, US researchers say. Troll accounts that had attempted to influence the US election had also been tweeting about vaccines, a study says. Many posted both pro- and anti-vaccination messages to create "false equivalency", the study found. It examined thousands of tweets sent between 2014 and 2017. The researchers reviewed more than 250 tweets about vaccination from accounts linked to the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA). In February the agency was named in a US indictment over alleged election meddling. The IRA tweets used polarising language and linked vaccination to controversial statements about race, class and government legitimacy, the researchers said.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192 Covid vaccines: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-57928647 “It started with an email" says Mirko Drotschmann, a German YouTuber and journalist. Mirko normally ignores offers from brands asking him to advertise their products to his more than 1.5 million subscribers. But the sponsorship offer he received in May this year was unlike any other. An influencer marketing agency called Fazze offered to pay him to promote what it said was leaked information that suggested the death rate among people who had the Pfizer vaccine was almost three times that of the AstraZeneca jab. The information provided wasn't true.” |
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GOP Rep. Mike Turner: Russian propaganda is 'being uttered on the House floor'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-rep-mike-turner-russian-propaganda-uttered-house-floor-rcna146760 |
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The only Russian propaganda actually cited is that: "There are members of Congress today who still incorrectly say that this conflict between Russia and Ukraine is over NATO, which of course it is not," he added. Then Blinken goes out and says this just the other day: “Ukraine will become a member of NATO. Our purpose at the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters Thursday in Brussels." Previously you have Stoltenberg running around saying stuff like: "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that Russia's victory in the Ukraine war would mean "NATO's defeat." So both the Secretary of State and NATO Chief seem to agree with this Russian/Republican propaganda. So in reality, this conspiracy is way deeper than people can possibly imagine. |
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It’s the only one cited in the article. It’s not the only piece of Russian propaganda being passed around the GOP. And you’re defending them. |
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+1 Here’s what Turner actually said. 
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I’m glad more of this is coming out. Republican voters have been allowed to stick their heads in the sand about this but the fact that one of our two political parties is powered not by what voters what but what Putin wants still leaves me speechless. |
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In an ongoing campaign that seeks to influence congressional and other political debates to stoke anti-Ukraine sentiment, Kremlin-linked political strategists and trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles, social media posts and comments that promote American isolationism, stir fear over the United States’ border security and attempt to amplify U.S. economic and racial tensions, according to a trove of internal Kremlin documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post. When Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a leading opponent of aid to Ukraine, warned of “a dangerous bipartisan consensus that is leading us into war with Russia” and slammed Washington’s initial $40 billion aid package for Kyiv in 2022 as coming “while Americans go without baby formula,” the Russians singled it out for their trolls as an example of the kind of message that should be amplified.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukraine/ |
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“Representative Ken Buck didn’t hesitate to point a finger at Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, saying on Monday, “Moscow Marjorie is focused now on this Ukraine issue and getting her talking points from the Kremlin and making sure that she is popular and she is getting a lot of coverage.”
They’re saying aloud what they once whispered behind closed doors. Back in 2016, when he was a Republican congressman but not yet House speaker, Kevin McCarthy said in a private meeting with GOP leaders, “There’s two people, I think, Putin pays: [Representative Dana] Rohrabacher and Trump … swear to God.” (Rohrabacher, once dubbed “Putin’s favorite congressman,” lost his seat in 2018.) McCarthy, confronted with the leaked audio in 2017, claimed it was a joke. But anyone paying attention to how Russian intelligence services run influence operations—which I do, as a former CIA officer—knows it is anything but. It raises a legitimate, and deadly serious, question: Have Russian operatives paid any Republican officials?” https://newrepublic.com/article/180630/russia-corruption-network-europe-buying-politicians-america?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=TNR&utm_source=threa |
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Have they done anything, literally anything, to suggest they are not being paid by Russia? |
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