Posted on 12/20/2017 6:59:20 AM PST by Hadean
Two Senate committees probing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election have now asked for materials related to Green Party candidate Jill Stein's campaign.
Why are investigators interested in Stein? The environmentalist, an advocate of better relations with Russia, has been a Kremlin favorite since her first run as the Green Party's presidential candidate in 2012. She has regularly appeared on Russian state-owned television, including RT, and famously sat across from Russian President Vladimir Putin at a 2015 gala dinner. "The Russian embrace of Jill Stein was anything but subtle," said Andrew Weiss, a Russia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Russian state propaganda outlets like RT had a field day with her strident attacks on the U.S. political establishment, and they seemed to work hand in glove."
Clint Watts, an NBC News analyst who has been tracking Russian election interference at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, said that Russia's intelligence agencies "sought to play both sides of the political spectrum to elevate Trump and turn down turnout for Clinton."
Added Watts, "On the left politically, they sought to dissuade Bernie Sanders voters from turning out to the polls and increase turnout for Stein." Stein does seem to have played a role in denying the presidency to the Kremlin's least favorite candidate, Hillary Clinton.
Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia and an NBC News analyst, said that Stein "most certainly influenced the outcome of [the 2016] election, given the outcome was decided in three states and by 78,000 voters."
Despite receiving only 1.07 percent of the national vote total, her showing in the crucial states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan was greater than Clinton's margin of defeat, and arguably denied Clinton an Electoral College victory.
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Ahhh...payback for the next reason why the beest lost. We’ll teach you, you silly leg-before-wicket Independent woman!
Mensheviks vs Bolsheviks!
How many billions have we wasted on the Russia hooey?
How did I get stuck with Richard Burr as my Senator
Hopefully Trump will call these idiots out for what they are!
Russians pushing a candidate in an American election does not prove or even indicate a probability of “collusion.”
This article is so packed full of lies.
Fake news. Russia did NOT want Trump. They wanted H! bc they own her.
Closing in on $10 million...
“Senate Russia Investigators are Interested in Jill Stein”.
At first I thought this was Funny News since no one is actually interested in Jill Stein.
But this meme has an upside. As a major oil and gas producer, Russia would naturally favor US politicians most likely to harm the US petroleum industry. Who better than anti-capitalist, environmentalist Green Party candidate Jill Stein? Donald Trump would be the last person the Russian oil & gas oligarchs would want as US President, which should be enough to put the Russian Collusion game into the dumper.
Team Hillary pumped up Stein during the primaries, to split the far-left vote and deny Bernie Sanders the nomination.
With Bernie out, the Stein bloc was supposed to abandon her and vote Hillary! in the general. Some refused and stubbornly voted Stein anyway, some just stayed home, I suppose.
Now they're trying to pin it on the Russians, but Hillary has only herself to blame.
Maybe Trump paid Stein to stay in the race.
Be still my heart!!!
The senate theater production company needs new characters and faces for their plays.
When is Mueller going to indict Trump for colluding with his own campaign to influence the 2016 election? I mean they did interfere with Hillary’s coronation. All Mueller has to do is figure out how that is a crime. Aren’t we about getting to that stage in this investigation?
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