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READ: Senate report finds Russia tried to harm Clinton, boost Trump in 2016 election
The Hill ^ | Staff

Posted on 10/08/2019 11:02:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released volume two of its Russia investigation, which concluded that Russians sought "to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election by harming Hillary Clinton’s chances of success and supporting Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin," according to a committee press release.

The committee in the report focused on Russia's use of social media to influence the 2016 election, led by the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency (IRA).

"The Committee found that IRA social media activity was overtly and almost invariably supportive of then-candidate Trump to the detriment of Secretary Clinton’s campaign," according to the release.

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


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KEYWORDS: 2016; clinton; russia; trump; trump2016; trumprussia
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Senate Russa Report Volume 2

Russia Facebook Ads:

Russia Facebook Ads

I have to confess I was going to vote for Hillary until I saw these ads:


1 posted on 10/08/2019 11:02:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Why didn’t the Obama-Biden administration do anything about it???


2 posted on 10/08/2019 11:03:56 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Sure they did.


3 posted on 10/08/2019 11:05:44 AM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: 2banana

no wonder she lost-heh heh


4 posted on 10/08/2019 11:05:47 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: yesthatjallen

This is burr and warner, not to mention bubble boy.


5 posted on 10/08/2019 11:06:20 AM PDT by JoSixChip (I'm an American Nationalist)
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To: yesthatjallen

Why would the Kremlin want Trump to win when they had the goods on Clinton and had already bought her loyalty with about $125 MILLION in donations to the Clinton Foundation? It doesn’t make any sense at all.


6 posted on 10/08/2019 11:06:33 AM PDT by euram
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To: 2banana

I suspect this narrative is fixing to get blowed up.


7 posted on 10/08/2019 11:06:40 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: yesthatjallen

I find this laughable at best considering the Clinton’s were taking in MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BRIBE MONEY from Putin!!!


8 posted on 10/08/2019 11:06:55 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: yesthatjallen

Q. What do those posts have in common?

A. The word “SPONSORED”.

Mark Zuckerberg was gladly cashing their checks. He did not give a damn what they were up to.


9 posted on 10/08/2019 11:07:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: yesthatjallen

Senate Intelligence: “When Military Intelligence isn’t stupid enough”


10 posted on 10/08/2019 11:08:01 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: yesthatjallen

Then why did they give Hillary anti-Trump dirt?


11 posted on 10/08/2019 11:11:01 AM PDT by Brilliant
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All they had were the Facebook ads. The Democrats wouldn’t turn over the DNC server.


12 posted on 10/08/2019 11:11:33 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: euram
"Why would the Kremlin want Trump to win when they had the goods on Clinton and had already bought her loyalty with about $125 MILLION in donations to the Clinton Foundation? It doesn’t make any sense at all.

Maybe Putin didn't want a rival communist government in North America unless he was running it. He probably has his hands full just trying to get along with China.
13 posted on 10/08/2019 11:13:29 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: yesthatjallen
Do you know one potential Hillary voter who changed to Trump at the last minute because of an internet ad?
14 posted on 10/08/2019 11:13:41 AM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: yesthatjallen

Bullshine.

At best this was some Russians who wanted clicks. Clicks = money. Simple as that.

For extra credit, if the Russians were working to elect Trump, how does the Steele piss dossier help in that effort?

Our government lies so much that now the lies laughingly conflict with each other and they simply move on to the next lie.


15 posted on 10/08/2019 11:13:48 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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Who between Clinton and Trump could Putin blackmail and manipulate?


16 posted on 10/08/2019 11:13:56 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: Zathras
Of all the spurious excuses she gives for her loss, the most ludicrous is that
Hillary says she lost her "sure-thing election" because "Putin doesn't like me."
Comey sucked up big-time--told Congress Putin wanted to “harm Hillary.”

REALITY CHECK Hillary once bragged that she, alone, was brought into Putin's inner sanctum
where she assured Putin she was worried about wildlife like he was.

Putin whispered to an attentive Hilary that they were BFF.

Secy Hillary and Obama were eager to please Russia w/ the friendly reset button.
Hillary later said the reset gambit was Obama's and her idea "to strengthen Russia."

==============================================

Ex-Pres Clinton is s-o-o-o-o friendly he traveled to Russia to clinch the uranium giveaway deal.
And to pocket a $500,000 dollar speaking fee from a Moscow bank plus a sizeable commission.

Billybooboo laid his "Hot Damn Hokey Hillbilly Act" on Putin.
Billy was then an ex-pres and had NO official govt role.

17 posted on 10/08/2019 11:14:24 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: euram
I believe the entire Russia inference narrative has it backwards.

Russia wanted Hillary to win. They tried to make it appear Russia was backing Trump so he would be seen as compromised and people would vote for Hillary.

The laughable ads they produced for Facebook show they were using social media to discredit Trump and his supporters as fools.

18 posted on 10/08/2019 11:15:26 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: euram

It makes sense from the Senators’ point of view.

They do not want any light shining on their own corruption. Period................


19 posted on 10/08/2019 11:15:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: yesthatjallen

So how many posts are we talking about?

If I recall from the earlier report it was something about hundreds of thousands of spammed messages on Facebook. Not millions. Not engaging in voter fraud or election fraud - hundreds of thousands of fake news and blog posts masquerading as pro-Trump comments on social media.

Contrasted to the MILLIONS of fake news and blog posts generated by our own media on the same social media. (And let’s not get started with what Obama and the Dems did with Israel’s elections)

It’s like the senate lays down a heavy tone of conspiracy and trying to swing the election by saying Russians called 1000 voters to support Trump.

And a bigger question... was this payback for Dem influence in Ukraine and trying to start a civil war there?


20 posted on 10/08/2019 11:16:23 AM PDT by Skywise
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