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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: Repealthe17thAmendment

Agree. I am underwhelmed at some third rate foreign financed trolls as opposed to a hack ex-spook, financed by a presidential candidate and her party, shopped this nonsense to major media outlets. A rotten stinking pile.


61 posted on 02/16/2018 10:32:22 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

They aren’t even the best trolls in the world. We have the best trolls in the world. Just watch.


62 posted on 02/16/2018 10:36:02 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Helicondelta

While we’re all laughing at Mueller’s pitiful results, Hillary and her minions remain un-indicted.


63 posted on 02/16/2018 11:49:06 PM PST by free-in-nyc (Freeping from the heart of the anti-American phony "resistance")
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To: Helicondelta

As an American Citizen , I am far beyond offended by Mueller and his B.S. As a USA TAX PAYER I do hereby call for the Immediate Termination of Mueller from his current employment and demand he forfeit all future payments fro the Federal Government . Mueller is not qualified to work as a janitor. He has sponged Millions of $ from honest tax paying citizens who deserve to have an honest man holding the office which Mueller has ruined. Please throw the rat bum out A.S.A.P. , he is obviously a traitor by proxy.


64 posted on 02/17/2018 1:02:57 AM PST by huckleberry55
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To: Helicondelta
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.

POST OF THE DAY!

65 posted on 02/17/2018 4:11:40 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Helicondelta

On “The Five” yesterday (a Fox News Show), Dana Perino & others put on a show how THEY too were personally traumatized by Russian bits attacking their accounts. It was disgusting.


66 posted on 02/17/2018 4:26:57 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: ConservativeMind
The event apparently took place around May 29 2016, just days before Prigozhin’s 55th birthday on June 1st 1961.

What?

Time travel. It's a thing.

67 posted on 02/17/2018 4:54:57 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Rastus
Dschinghis Khan’s “Moskau.”

Oh, drat. Now I've listened to it, too!

Even though the lyrics are on the side of the video, I still have difficulty understanding it. Maybe that's because I don't know German. Russian attempt at subversion foiled because I've only ever studied Latin and Asian languages!

68 posted on 02/17/2018 5:05:48 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Helicondelta

Ummmm, so?


69 posted on 02/17/2018 5:08:19 AM PST by VeniVidiVici
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To: Paladin2
Let’s just remember it’s perfectly legal for the FBI to lie to the public.

That must be why they practice so much.

70 posted on 02/17/2018 5:10:20 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Helicondelta

You can make people on facebook eat Tide Pods....just saying.


71 posted on 02/17/2018 5:22:45 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Helicondelta
Really?

I want my money back.

We ought to drain Mueller's Swiss bank account to pay back the millions he's stolen from the treasure to produce pointless indictments.

Millions spent to find out the Russian's aren't our friends- get the fuck out!

Who knew?

72 posted on 02/17/2018 5:29:28 AM PST by Pietro
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To: FrankR

Thanks, FrankR!


73 posted on 02/17/2018 5:42:59 AM PST by pookie18
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To: Helicondelta

So, Russians are smart and US citizen demonstrators are ignorant. (I could go with that).


75 posted on 02/17/2018 6:00:00 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for!)
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To: Helicondelta

This is fantastic. He’s going to get trolled with thousands of signs.


76 posted on 02/17/2018 6:50:37 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Flick Lives

Mueller has obviously indicted 13 Russians that will NEVER face a jury but allows the Dems to say “ see, Trump was all wrong, there was Russia interference”. That’s what this entire stunt was all about. According to the indictment the Russians spent a WHOPPING $1.2 million...WOW ... Hilary’s campaign spent $12 million for a FAKE RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA DOSSIER WHICH SHE LEAKED TO THE MEDIA FOR THE PURPOSE OF ALTERING A US ELECTION!


77 posted on 02/17/2018 7:03:37 AM PST by mandaladon (It's always good to be underestimated. ~Donald Trump)
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To: Helicondelta

It could have been worse. They could have “tricked” this unwitting American into smoking.


78 posted on 02/17/2018 7:42:59 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: mandaladon

And how much did Soros spend to pay internet trolls?

And what about the news media CNN,ABC, NBC trying to rig the election by bashing Trump with lies like the bimbo eruptions etc.

Muelller indicts 13 internet trolls. This is a joke. Now the left is trying to criminalize free speed on the internet.


79 posted on 02/17/2018 7:46:15 AM 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

“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.’”

WTFWTFWTFWTF.


80 posted on 02/17/2018 9:31:47 AM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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