Sen. Mike Rounds Suggests Russian Disinformation Is Fueling Border Deal Opposition

Breitbart ^ | 1 Feb 2024 | BRADLEY JAYE

[Kazan]

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) suggests that Russian influence has manipulated opponents of a border compromise that could usher in 5,000 or more migrants per day.

Parroting similar talking points about Russian influence to Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, Rounds seems to suggest that Russian disinformation about the border components or a broader deal, including aid to Ukraine, is to blame for the yet-unseen deal’s opposition.

Rounds said Wednesday, “I suspect that a lot of the internet rumors are very well coming from overseas, where they would love to see this shut down because some people would rather not see funding for Ukraine.”

A group of Senate negotiators has been working for months on a compromise package pairing border security measures with tens of millions of dollars in foreign aid, mostly to Ukraine. As draft details of the deal’s border components have leaked, the bill’s prospects have increasingly dimmed.

Senators have quickly chastised the deal’s skeptics, repeatedly insisting that leaked details are not actually included. Yet paradoxically, they seem unwilling or unable to provide any information on what the bill actually contains.

Lead Republican negotiator Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has also claimed “internet rumors” are to blame for the bill’s unpopularity, although he offered few details on the bill other than increased funding for measures generally unpopular with the Republican base, such as more funding for policies to intake and house migrants.

[MNJohnnie]

There is no such thing as “disinformation”. There is only information the Government/Media complex disagrees with.

[Kazan]

And they’re freezing despite all their oil, coal and natural gas, because the mechanics in charge of keeping their infrastructure going are either dead or about to die in meat grinder assaults in Ukraine.

You act as if Russia is still behind an iron curtain. It isn't. Vloggers detail what happens there daily.

Everything you're claiming is a lie, just like the narrative about what started the proxy war in Ukraine.

People like you a danger to national and world security.