Garland’s new indictments detract from Democrats’ vulnerability to Chinese infiltration

Washington Times ^ | 5 Sep, 2024 | Editorial Board

[MtnClimber]

Like any competent magician, Attorney General Merrick Garland is a master of distraction. His clever trick on Wednesday involved announcing a nonsensical indictment against Russia to draw attention away from his party’s growing foreign influence predicament.

“As alleged in our court filings,” Mr. Garland said, “President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, including Sergei Kiriyenko, directed Russian public relations companies to promote disinformation and state-sponsored narratives as part of a campaign to influence the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.”

A second indictment accused Russian nationals of funding a media company featuring a handful of conservatives and disaffected former liberal journalists. Only the founder is accused of being aware of the connection to Russia.

That person has been promoting fringe ideas that make conservatives look bad, while also urging conservatives to reject former President Donald Trump. But don’t read that closely. The Department of Justice is interested only in the “Russia” headline that perpetuates the plot Hillary Clinton set in motion in 2016 when she commissioned a British ghostwriter to fabricate fairy tales about Mr. Trump being a secret Russian agent.

Stories about Russian influence operations involving random Facebook ads and YouTube influencers divert media coverage from the actual spies who have been in Democratic power circles for decades.

[MtnClimber]

A tactic to divert attention away from the long and continuing history of democRATs colluding with Chinese spies.

[hardspunned]

When does he indict Blinken and the gang of 51 for election interference?

[silverleaf]

Imagine using a media organization to spread state-sponsored narrative to influence an election! What an outrage. Who do the Russians think they are? The US democrat party?

[Colt1851Navy]

No, the U.S. Media.

[sauropod]

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