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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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To: goldstategop

sounds like a plan!


41 posted on 02/16/2018 7:56:45 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: Enchante

Russians trolls. Doing the jobs American trolls won’t do.


42 posted on 02/16/2018 7:58:38 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: Enchante
Mueller wants us to believe the 13 “russian” internet trolls convinced someone to hold up a birthday sign . LOL I'm not making this up! LOL.

I guess holding the birthday sign had the power to hack the voting machines even though the machines were not connected to the Internet ! LOL LOL lol

43 posted on 02/16/2018 7:59:33 PM PST by rurgan (The Federal reserve r leftists raising rates to hurt Trump.Fed kept rates at 0 for all of obama yrs)
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To: Helicondelta

How many Communist trolls got red dupes to hold up pre-printed placards at BLM, Pussyhat, Resist, WorldCantWait, etc rallies?


44 posted on 02/16/2018 8:03:08 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: kevao

Pathetic. And they don’t even have collusion.


45 posted on 02/16/2018 8:04:48 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: Flick Lives

It’s not over yet. He can spend millions more and ignore other potential mass murderers to see if he can find an even more useless tactile or squeeze some other poor slob into a manufactured guilty plea/plea deal. We might even find out a Russian slept within a mile of the White House once!


46 posted on 02/16/2018 8:10:28 PM PST by Mom MD ( .)
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To: Mom MD

Tactile = factoid Stupid autocorrect


47 posted on 02/16/2018 8:13:49 PM PST by Mom MD ( .)
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To: Helicondelta; pookie18
MUELLER_COLLUSION_PATROL
48 posted on 02/16/2018 8:16:59 PM PST by FrankR (An armed society is a polite society.)
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To: Helicondelta

Fallacy. Irrelevant.


49 posted on 02/16/2018 8:43:08 PM PST by familyop (President Trump said that we're all important, so let's do something!)
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To: Helicondelta

I’m guessing the ‘American’s fooled’ were democrats. If they were Republicans it would have been leaked and the press would be getting rope for a hanging.


50 posted on 02/16/2018 8:50:19 PM PST by GOPJ (The 'dead vote' is a byproduct of fraud that votes the people who don't show up.)
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To: a fool in paradise

The pussyhat march was a Palestinian troll thing...


51 posted on 02/16/2018 9:03:25 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Enchante

Remember when Obama had Palestinians making campaign calls and so on especially in Ohio? And then there was funny money coming in from the Middle East?
Did the FBI go after those meddlesome Palestinians?
That was the same election that Joe the Plumber was hacked by Democrats...wasn’t it?


52 posted on 02/16/2018 9:05:37 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Flick Lives

The Russians tricked me into listening to Dschinghis Khan’s “Moskau.” I’m so ashamed.


53 posted on 02/16/2018 9:06:33 PM PST by Rastus
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To: piasa

YUP. There was all kinds of foreign money and support provided to Obama, Hillary, and other Democraps. Huge investigations are still needed.


54 posted on 02/16/2018 9:09:23 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: kevao

What a joke. I trolled Michigan & Wisconsin College students to vote Stein. MSM made it easier with the fake stories about Killerys lead. I’d wait for the right thread on HuffPo, Slate or DU, then bleat like a mule about how the Dems Burned The Bern. And send the Dems a msg, vote Stein. LOL

No one easier to dupe than a college student whose been told all their life how brilliant they are.


55 posted on 02/16/2018 9:25:07 PM PST by fastrock (It is right to do wrong, even if sanctioned by law. - Abe Lincoln)
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To: FrankR

Precious!


56 posted on 02/16/2018 9:29:07 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: goldstategop

Americansky deep state troll seeks willing Russian lady for fun, 302s, indictments and bondage. Call. special counsel Bob.


57 posted on 02/16/2018 9:33:09 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Helicondelta

If these 13 guys with computers have more influence than NYT-WP-LAT-ABC-CBS-NBC-CNN etc. combined then why are they so worried about FOX News?


58 posted on 02/16/2018 9:42:25 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: AndyJackson

Did they arrest Peggy?

https://youtu.be/F8L2cI8brzQ


59 posted on 02/16/2018 10:02:32 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: proust
"That’s it?"

Isn't that what Comey tweeted about the Nunes memo? I believe it was "That's it, that's all you've got."

60 posted on 02/16/2018 10:20:12 PM PST by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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