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Mueller: Russian Trolls Convinced Unwitting American To Hold “Happy Birthday” Sign For Oligarch
Quartz ^ | February 16th, 2018

Posted on 02/16/2018 6:54:48 PM PST by Helicondelta

One of the overarching questions about Russia’s online campaign to destabilize the US election is just how effective those social media efforts really were.

Well, according to special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russian citizens and 3 entities, Russian trolls were persuasive enough to get at least one US citizen to stand up and wish their boss a very special happy birthday.

The indictment says they used a social media account to arrange “for a real US person to stand in front of the White House…under false pretenses to hold a sign that read ‘Happy 55th Birthday Dear Boss.'”

They reportedly told the American that it was for someone who “is a leader here and our boss…our funder.”

Their leader is Russian oligarch Egveny Prigozhin, who paid for the disinformation campaign. The event apparently took place around May 29 2016, just days before Prigozhin’s 55th birthday on June 1st 1961.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 13russiantrolls; egvenyprigozhin; mueller; prigozhin
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1 posted on 02/16/2018 6:54:48 PM PST by Helicondelta
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So when is some goverment going to charge Borat with Shenanigans?


2 posted on 02/16/2018 6:58:38 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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3 posted on 02/16/2018 7:00:44 PM PST by Meet the New Boss
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How many Chinese Nationals were charged? Mexican Nationals? British Nationals? Israeli Nationals?


4 posted on 02/16/2018 7:02:15 PM PST by The Toll
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5 posted on 02/16/2018 7:04:02 PM PST by Tawiskaro
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A happy birthday sign?

And just how many millions in taxpayer dollars were spent for exposing this crime of the century?


6 posted on 02/16/2018 7:04:12 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Helicondelta

LOL Mueller’s investigation is pathetic.


7 posted on 02/16/2018 7:05:03 PM PST by Red Steel
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Let’s just remember it’s perfectly legal for the FBI to lie to the public.


8 posted on 02/16/2018 7:06:51 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: a fool in paradise

note pic of Sarah Huckabee Sanders wiping her brow (”on Dec 5”!), as if she’s responding to today’s Mueller propaganda.

plu below the article -

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FakeIndictments, FakeNewsMSM.


9 posted on 02/16/2018 7:07:04 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: The Toll

I want to know which foreign interference had the biggest impact on the election: Christopher Steele and his fake dossier or the 13 Russians with their fake twitter accounts.


10 posted on 02/16/2018 7:07:46 PM PST by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: Flick Lives

The mountains were in labor and have given birth to a ridiculous mouse.


11 posted on 02/16/2018 7:10:54 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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The event apparently took place around May 29 2016, just days before Prigozhin’s 55th birthday on June 1st 1961.

What?

12 posted on 02/16/2018 7:12:47 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Flick Lives

How much was Hillary paying the Russians for this false flag op?


13 posted on 02/16/2018 7:13:50 PM PST by AndyJackson
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Steele shopped his fake story (sourced from the Russian government) to mainstream media outlets, including Yahoo News. Which outlet actually reached more people? A targeted Facebook ad, or Yahoo News?

If Steele is not indicted, it's proof that Mueller is a partisan hack.

14 posted on 02/16/2018 7:14:44 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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Those thirteen trolls on twitter urging a vote for Trump must have been rather taken aback by the foul abuse they received from Soros funded leftists trolling twitter.


15 posted on 02/16/2018 7:15:14 PM PST by AndyJackson
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Gololy gee, that evil and craftily effective act of trolldom pushed the entire country over the abyss, straight into the fires of hell.

Spend millions and millions of dollars prosecuting some goofball with a cardboard sign. Good gravy.


16 posted on 02/16/2018 7:15:59 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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From, not on


17 posted on 02/16/2018 7:16:46 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Helicondelta

That’s it?


18 posted on 02/16/2018 7:17:34 PM PST by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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I think some of the email spam I get is from Russia.

Could you please get to the bottom of it for me?

Mueller? Mueller? Anybody?


19 posted on 02/16/2018 7:18:33 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a pear tree.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Someone who, but for our tireless FBI, would have attracted as much public attention in Washington as I did when I visited it in 1979.


20 posted on 02/16/2018 7:18:43 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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