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AP Live Updates | Putin could meddle in US elections again
The Associated Press ^ | April 9, 2022

Posted on 04/09/2022 1:25:59 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials predict Russian President Vladimir Putin may use U.S. support for Ukraine as justification for a new campaign to interfere in American politics.

Intelligence officials tell The Associated Press that they have yet to find any evidence that Putin has authorized measures like the ones Russia undertook in the last two elections to support former President Donald Trump. Several people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive findings said it remains unclear which candidates Russia might try to promote next.

Trump has repeatedly assailed U.S. intelligence officials and claimed that investigations of Russian influence on his campaigns to be political vendettas. In Ukraine and elsewhere, Russia has been accused of trying to spread disinformation, amplifying pro-Kremlin voices in the West and using cyberattacks to disrupt governments.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: democrats; journalism; media; press
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All the hallmarks of Media disinformation.
1 posted on 04/09/2022 1:25:59 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

People will never forget how Putin concoted the phony Hunter Biden laptop “leak.”

Oh wait....


2 posted on 04/09/2022 1:27:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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>> like the ones Russia undertook in the last two elections to support former President Donald Trump.

Lies. AP knows Biden didn’t get 81 million legit votes.


3 posted on 04/09/2022 1:28:03 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More disinformation from the All Propaganda (AP) news bureau!


4 posted on 04/09/2022 1:28:36 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The ‘22 Republican landslide will be blamed on Russian influence.


5 posted on 04/09/2022 1:28:39 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Again? Like when Putin teamed with the Democrats to smear Trump?


6 posted on 04/09/2022 1:29:40 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nobody wanted to sign on as the author of this crap.


7 posted on 04/09/2022 1:29:55 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not this Russia, Russia, Russia’s fault, again, Bee Ess.


8 posted on 04/09/2022 1:29:57 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Quick!

Call the neocons!


9 posted on 04/09/2022 1:35:17 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Again? He never did.


10 posted on 04/09/2022 1:35:25 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
As though the US never "meddled" in elections in places like the Ukraine.


11 posted on 04/09/2022 1:36:47 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because the Deep State never meddles in the elections of other countries.


12 posted on 04/09/2022 1:37:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Depopulate the depopulationists. --FJB)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Putin sure has changed lately. Looks like a totally different person.


13 posted on 04/09/2022 1:37:44 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Setting up excuses for the coming democrat wipe out


14 posted on 04/09/2022 1:38:00 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

You noticed that, too, huh? :0)

AP is the media clearing house for most all of MSM lies that get promulgated and then put out like they have teams of reporters just dogging every story. It’s all BS. It’s nothing but a leftist disinformation rumor mill, IMO.


15 posted on 04/09/2022 1:38:57 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Pollard

THAT’S one of America’s rich OLIGARCHS there...


16 posted on 04/09/2022 1:40:49 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ass Press laying it on thick. When are they going to register as agents of the Chinese government?


17 posted on 04/09/2022 1:41:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Republicans can't win without the Russians. Get accustomed to hearing it. They will never change.
18 posted on 04/09/2022 1:43:47 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is 2022, not 2017. The MSM is still pushing this nonsense. Unbelievable.


19 posted on 04/09/2022 1:44:29 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You and Chicago Conservative do like to stir ‘em up, don’t you. Whatever blows your skirt up, I suppose.


20 posted on 04/09/2022 1:49:53 PM PDT by silent majority rising ( )
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