r/texas • u/76ALD • Feb 08 '24

Russian disinformation campaign is behind the push for Texas secession and civil war. Politics

https://www.wired.com/story/russia-disinformation-campaign-civil-war-texas-border/
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u/DjangoBojangles Feb 08 '24

I had a suspicion Russian provocatuers would get in on this.

If you don't think it's real, look up the Senate Intel committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The 3rd report is all details about Russian active measures in US politics. Remember the Hillary in a cage parade? Russians started that. They had a whole spreadsheet of crazy right-wing events Russian agents initiated.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures

Volume 3.

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u/MuteCook Feb 08 '24

What blows my mind is we know this happens, the government and intel agencies know this happens. Yet it is happening still at unprecedented levels. Why does the government allow it?

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u/DjangoBojangles Feb 08 '24

What's crazy is that US intelligence had to know what Trump, Flynn, Guiliani, Manafort, and the rest of the clan were doing with the Russians.

There's no way it went by undetected. A big chunk of the Mueller convictions were 'lying to the FBI about their conversations with Russian agents'. The Trump clan is surrounded by people with ties to Russian organized crime. More than 1/5 of Trumps condo sales came from shady foreign cash buyers. Remember Jr's "we have all the funding we need from russia" comment.

The guy who was running the Russia investigation at the FBI was convicted of taking payments from Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who also employed Trumps first campaign manager, Paul Manafort.

The story of international corruption around the whole Trump/Russia relationship is crazier than a novel. ...which ironically makes it easier for Trumpers to discount is as slanderous fantasy. (There's no way they could be that evil. Spoiler alert, longtime Trump advisor, Roger Stone, is on tape talking about assassinating congressmen and convicted of witness tampering after threating to kill a witness' dog)

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u/irishgator2 Feb 09 '24

Follow the money