How is this not foreign interference in an election?
That ship sailed a while ago with Bertelsmann owned publishing companies funneling money to American pols and enemediots through book deals.
Last night Tucker Carlson had Glenn Greenwald as a guest. He said the corporate media convinced itself that the real threat was not the CIA, Pentagon, NSA, etc (all of them on the side of the left), but was Trump, and they all were trying to undermine him, and anyone who supports Trump has to be dstroyed, their only crime is they have the wrong ideology.
From Tucker’s show last night...
Did the Biden administration have any role in this particular intel op? Why is the German government trying to shut down an American Twitter account posting about American teachers? And since she was the recipient, the willing recipient, of this information from a foreign government designed to destroy an American citizen, why hasn’t Taylor Lorenz, at the very least, registered under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA)?
We seem to remember quite a bit of talk about this over the last year. We think there was an impeachment trial of it. Someone went to prison because of it, but Taylor Lorenz can take information from a foreign government to crush an American citizen, clearly as part of an Intel operation, and she’s a journalist in good standing at Jeff Bezos’ newspaper? Lots of questions here. We hope we can get to the bottom of all of them.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-libs-tiktok-oust-campaign-twitter
So far, none of this funding-chat business indicates it came prior to 2016 (if evidence does come up, then this is a whole other case), but this is funding that came after 2016 and this weird perception that German political elites had that far extreme people were using social media.
It would be curious to ask what this foundation was supplying WaPo and the NY Times in the 2020 election period.
Well, one dirty little secret is that “foreign interference” in an election is actually not illegal. Foreign votes, or foreign donations maybe illegal, but the Constitution guarantees free speech even for foreigners, and almost everything people assert is “interference” is really just political speech.