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Ex-workers at Russian ‘troll factory’ trust US indictment
AP via WNCN.com ^ | 2/19/18 | AP

Posted on 02/19/2018 12:47:01 PM PST by Rebelbase

[snip] The aim of the factory’s work was either to influence voters or to undermine their faith in the U.S. political system, the 37-page indictment states.

Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that while the indictment focuses on “Russian nationals,” it gives “no indication that the Russian government was involved in this in any way.” Peskov reasserted that Moscow did not interfere in the U.S. election.

Mindiyarov, who failed the language exam needed to get a job on the Internet Research Agency’s Facebook desk, where the pay was double than the domestic side of the factory. The sleek operation produced content that looked as if it were written by native English speakers, he said.

“These were people with excellent language skills, interpreters, university graduates,” he said, “It’s very hard to tell it’s a foreigner writing because they master the language wonderfully.”

The English test he took asked for a writing sample about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the U.S. presidential vote, Mindiyarov recalled.

“I wrote that her chances were high and she could become the first female president,” he told the AP.

(Excerpt) Read more at wncn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: agitprop; americanpravda; asspress; buttociatedpress; dmitrypeskov; jamescomey; lisapage; peterstrzok; robertmueller; russia; russiantrolls; trollfactory
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1 posted on 02/19/2018 12:47:01 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

How does this square with US involvement in influencing elections in other foreign countries?


2 posted on 02/19/2018 12:48:01 PM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: Rebelbase

According to Mueller’s indictment:

“In or around November 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators organized a rally in New York through one ORGANIZATION-controlled group designed to “show your support for President-Elect Donald Trump,” held on or about November 12, 2016. At the same time, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through another ORGANIZATION-controlled group, organized a rally in New York called “Trump is NOT my President” held on or about November 12, 2016.”


3 posted on 02/19/2018 12:50:42 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Heh. It’s not collusion, it’s confusion.


4 posted on 02/19/2018 12:52:21 PM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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5 posted on 02/19/2018 12:53:37 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Rebelbase

It’s like being from Kenya but yet not.


6 posted on 02/19/2018 12:55:45 PM PST by blackdog
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To: Rebelbase

“How does this square with US involvement in influencing elections in other foreign countries?”

Shhh...
CNN says that only a racist White Nationalist would dare to mention that.


7 posted on 02/19/2018 12:59:48 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Rebelbase
"We came, we saw, he died."

-Hillary
Oct. 20, 2011

(Regarding the overthrow and assassination of Muammar Gaddafi, the leader of Libya, by Obama, and Hillary at State.)

8 posted on 02/19/2018 1:11:51 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: Rebelbase

I smell desperation on Muellers part.


9 posted on 02/19/2018 1:41:43 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Crucial

“I smell desperation on Muellers part.”

Behind the scenes Mueller is looking for a deal. He does have an issue since Comey is a good friend and he doesn’t want to throw him under the bus. A bigger problem is everyone associated with this can rat on each other. This wasn’t compartmentalized.

Ultimately what has to happen is the entire intelligence community at the senior levels, from Brennan to Clapper to Comey to McCabe and their associates have to be indicted on obstruction of justice charges stemming from the bogus investigation relating to alleged collusion. Every one of their interviews on CNN needs to be documented as evidence and CNN needs to be brought to justice as willing participants in the obstruction.

And, once this is done, each time a network steps up to help CNN, they are indicted on conspiracy charges since we would already know that what they would be supporting is false.

It really is time to end this. If all of these guys decided to rat out Hillary in exchange to be set free, I would accept that. Because in the end, it was she who set all this in motion more than 20 years ago.


10 posted on 02/19/2018 1:59:44 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Death of the MSM - "Because it is my show and I don't want to do that." Jake Tapper)
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To: BenLurkin

I have been trying to figure out how organizing both pro and anti-Trump rallies is not a self-cancelling effort? Especially when they are held simultaneously in the same place.


11 posted on 02/19/2018 2:06:45 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: Rebelbase

Comments are on for this story. I just posted something. When these stories come up and comments are on comment to fight their spin. I just posted a comment as Don Cook.


12 posted on 02/19/2018 2:07:17 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Obadiah

Technically speaking assassinating a head of state, destroying the nation’s infrastructure and abandoning the remains to a host of squabbling Al-Qaeda factions is not meddling in an election.


13 posted on 02/19/2018 2:12:58 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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Just to cause trouble.

Not a very friendly thing to do.


14 posted on 02/19/2018 2:20:51 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Rebelbase

The Russian blame game is owned by the Democrats, who are using it to discredit Republicans and conservatives in general, as well as deflect attention away from agent provocateurs in Soros employ.


15 posted on 02/19/2018 2:35:57 PM PST by CMB_polarization
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To: BenLurkin

Even so, AFAIK those were the only two rallies the Ruskies organized. The rest amounted to buying some online ads and internet trolling. And those two rallies were barely noticed at the time and paled in comparison, both in numbers and in terms of ‘chaos,’ to all the rallies, protests and riots around the nation organized by Americans.

Pretty weenie!

And now foreign nations have cause to start issuing indictments on Americans, justified or not, to mess with the U.S. Way to go, Mueller!


16 posted on 02/19/2018 2:36:35 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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I have been trying to figure out how organizing both pro and anti-Trump rallies is not a self-cancelling effort?

Their business is likely to get donations and credit card numbers. They don't care about the cause at all but look to exploit people's emotions to get them to open their wallets.

17 posted on 02/19/2018 2:39:25 PM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Reeses

That makes more sense. Just another foreign scamming operation.


18 posted on 02/19/2018 2:43:49 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: TigersEye

1) Gin up unrest

2) Goad antis to attack Trump supporters.


19 posted on 02/19/2018 2:48:52 PM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it is but it do.)
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To: TigersEye

I don’t know if it is that “innocent.” I’d like to know who hired these Russians, where their funding came from. Would it lead right back around and bite the rats in the @ss once again?


20 posted on 02/19/2018 2:51:56 PM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it is but it do.)
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