7. Interactions and Contacts with the Trump Campaign
The investigation identified two different forms of connections between the IRA and members of the Trump Campaign.
(The investigation identified no similar connections between the IRA and the Clinton Campaign.)
The Special Counsel made to assumptions about the Clinton Campaign either. They examined the same connections to both campaigns and came up empty on Clinton.
First, on multiple occasions, members and surrogates of the Trump Campaign promoted-typically by linking, retweeting, or similar methods of reposting pro-Trump or anti-Clinton content published by the IRA through IRA-controlled social media accounts. Additionally, in a few instances, IRA employees represented themselves as U.S. persons to communicate with members of the Trump campaign in an effort to seek assistance and coordination on IRA-organized political rallies inside the United States.
The Russians PRACTICED their American identities on a regular basis and were trusted with the postings they conducted. They were good enough at being American so it's original content appeared to be as factual as at least the tabloids. It seems to me that is an American source to many fearful ideas in American society. Even Hillary Clinton appeared in an article whereby there was speculation she had a baby with an alien father.
The Russians were publishing original content. They were among the people and were able to anchor their material in online IDs that would eventually manifest into the actual use of Americans carrying their message. In other words, their content was very believable and it was inflammatory. The content of the Russian government was all based on increasing tensions between candidates and people. There were no messages of peace. There were only US AND THEM messages.
If there was one peace message, it was that Trump would not cause a nuclear holocaust, but, Clinton would that came directly from Putin. So, it wasn't as though it was a peace message, so much as a message of AN ALTERNATIVE to war. It was a message that the American people would surrender their identity as leaders of a free world and allow the Russian surrogate, namely Donald J. Trump, take the presidency and make the country into one that was to the liking of Russia.
Got that?
Putin came out of the shadows of his operation and stated there would be nuclear war if Hillary Clinton was elected. It was a veiled surrender to Putin in that statement. If the American people put Trump in the White House it, therefore, surrendered the identity the USA was mostly known for and that was as an enforcer of freedom and democracy.
Putin did not believe his words would be taken as Republican rhetoric or other subtle political statements, he believed what he said and expected Americans to capitulate their international authority.
Putin made a sincere threat against the people of the USA if they did not elect Trump. He expected the election of Trump to be a surrender to Russia. Putin did and does not expect the Legislative Branch of the USA to have sincere power either. I am quite confident US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a surprise to Russia.
The President of the United States of America does not have the power or clout that Putin has in Russia.
a. Trump Campaign Promotion of IRA Political Materials Among the U.S. "leaders of public opinion" targeted by the IRA were various members and surrogates of the Trump Campaign. In total, Trump Campaign affiliates promoted dozens of tweets, posts, and other political content created by the IRA. Posts from the IRA-controlled Twitter account @TEN_GOP were cited or retweeted by multiple Trump Campaign officials and surrogates, including Donald J. Trump Jr.,96 Eric Trump,97 Kellyanne Conway,98 Brad Parscale,99 and Michael T. Flynn. 100 These posts included allegations of voter fraud, 101 as well as allegations that Secretary Clinton had mishandled classified information.102
The Russian IRA hit it out of the park. They successfully created content that was believable and WANTED. The IRA was successful in their invasion into the very inner circle of the Trump Campaign.
I take it none of the content cited and retweeted was by the Clinton Campaign. That only proves the Trump Campaign was interested in attracting votes and nor worried about content.
Voter Fraud and the email of Hillary Clinton was at the center of the momentum of the Trump Campaign. The immigration issue was as well. As of yet, I don't see references to immigration by Russians. They were concentrating their ethnic problems with African Americans and using that as a wedge issue. The Clinton Campaign was known, as a Democratic organization to carry African American voters in any election. At the time this was transpiring not cited in this report to date, Putin was filling Russian media with sympathy for the African American community in the USA and it's problems with law enforcement.
I find it curious the immigration issues that Trump ran on in 2016 was not the focus of a Russian ID group. I think Putin evaluated what it would take to push voters to Trump and decided long before 2014 it was important the Black Community would respond best to his interventions. Putin definitely wanted the African American voter pulling the election lever for Trump. It was enough of a percentage to ensure Trump's win without the Hispanic vote. His election research was completed before the project was begun. It also involved the idea of ending death. I don't mean to minimize the problems we face in the USA regarding racism, but, this American community was a focus of Putin's goals.
White Supremacists/Nationalists are hated by Russia. I believe it is primarily because of power and not the belief system. It seems to me as I read this report Putin concentrates on power and the movement of that power in favor of his outcomes. He is not aligned with belief systems, he chooses to align with areas of power within a country in order to achieve his goal. In this case, the 2016 Republican Party is known to be accepting of White Supremacists, but, in order for him to win the elections with Trump, he developed Group IDs that would move African Americans toward Trump. Putin knows what will be the ultimate goal and the ethnicity and belief systems of people are irrelevant to him. He wants power and once he has it, he doesn't care what happens to people, their identities or their beliefs. In reading this report I believe more than ever that Vladimir Putin is ruthlessly dangerous.
That idea of holding power is reflected in Russian actions as well. Putin has built a hospital for the wealthy in Russia. His inner circle has it's own hospital, physicians and staff. He also has seen the installation of mercy killing in Russia. Euthanasia. He is a very odd entity to me. On one hand, he protects tigers while ruthlessly carrying out power moves both internationally and domestically. Power moves that ensures his place at the top.
Oh, well.
A November 7, 2016 post from the IRA-controlled Twitter account @Pamela_ Moore 13 was retweeted by Donald J. Trump, Jr. 103
On September 19, 2017, President Trump's personal .. account @realDonaldTrump responded to a tweet from the IRA-controlled account @ l0_gop (the backup account of @TEN_ GOP, which had already been deactivated by Twitter). The tweet read: "We love you, Mr. President!"104
And doesn't Donald love to be loved, lies and all.
Oops, there it is. Russian content embraced by Trump. What a victory that must have been for the Russian IRA.
IRA employees monitored the reaction of the Trump Campaign and, later, Trump Administration officials to their tweets. For example, on August 23, 2016, the IRA controlled persona "Matt Skiber" Facebook account sent a message to a U.S. Tea Party activist, writin.g that "Mr. Trump posted about our event in Miami! This is great!" 105 The IRA employee included a screenshot of candidate Trump's Facebook account, which included a post about the Screenshot of Trump Facebook August 20, 2016 political rallies organized by the IRA.
Ah, it's that sweet. The Russians and Tea Party all are in this together.
"Mr. Trump posted about our event in Miami! This is great!"
It is all so cozy and a profound feeling of commonality and togetherness. I almost expect them to break out in song.
continued in next entry
(The investigation identified no similar connections between the IRA and the Clinton Campaign.)
The Special Counsel made to assumptions about the Clinton Campaign either. They examined the same connections to both campaigns and came up empty on Clinton.
First, on multiple occasions, members and surrogates of the Trump Campaign promoted-typically by linking, retweeting, or similar methods of reposting pro-Trump or anti-Clinton content published by the IRA through IRA-controlled social media accounts. Additionally, in a few instances, IRA employees represented themselves as U.S. persons to communicate with members of the Trump campaign in an effort to seek assistance and coordination on IRA-organized political rallies inside the United States.
The Russians PRACTICED their American identities on a regular basis and were trusted with the postings they conducted. They were good enough at being American so it's original content appeared to be as factual as at least the tabloids. It seems to me that is an American source to many fearful ideas in American society. Even Hillary Clinton appeared in an article whereby there was speculation she had a baby with an alien father.
The Russians were publishing original content. They were among the people and were able to anchor their material in online IDs that would eventually manifest into the actual use of Americans carrying their message. In other words, their content was very believable and it was inflammatory. The content of the Russian government was all based on increasing tensions between candidates and people. There were no messages of peace. There were only US AND THEM messages.
If there was one peace message, it was that Trump would not cause a nuclear holocaust, but, Clinton would that came directly from Putin. So, it wasn't as though it was a peace message, so much as a message of AN ALTERNATIVE to war. It was a message that the American people would surrender their identity as leaders of a free world and allow the Russian surrogate, namely Donald J. Trump, take the presidency and make the country into one that was to the liking of Russia.
Got that?
Putin came out of the shadows of his operation and stated there would be nuclear war if Hillary Clinton was elected. It was a veiled surrender to Putin in that statement. If the American people put Trump in the White House it, therefore, surrendered the identity the USA was mostly known for and that was as an enforcer of freedom and democracy.
Putin did not believe his words would be taken as Republican rhetoric or other subtle political statements, he believed what he said and expected Americans to capitulate their international authority.
Putin made a sincere threat against the people of the USA if they did not elect Trump. He expected the election of Trump to be a surrender to Russia. Putin did and does not expect the Legislative Branch of the USA to have sincere power either. I am quite confident US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a surprise to Russia.
The President of the United States of America does not have the power or clout that Putin has in Russia.
a. Trump Campaign Promotion of IRA Political Materials Among the U.S. "leaders of public opinion" targeted by the IRA were various members and surrogates of the Trump Campaign. In total, Trump Campaign affiliates promoted dozens of tweets, posts, and other political content created by the IRA. Posts from the IRA-controlled Twitter account @TEN_GOP were cited or retweeted by multiple Trump Campaign officials and surrogates, including Donald J. Trump Jr.,96 Eric Trump,97 Kellyanne Conway,98 Brad Parscale,99 and Michael T. Flynn. 100 These posts included allegations of voter fraud, 101 as well as allegations that Secretary Clinton had mishandled classified information.102
The Russian IRA hit it out of the park. They successfully created content that was believable and WANTED. The IRA was successful in their invasion into the very inner circle of the Trump Campaign.
I take it none of the content cited and retweeted was by the Clinton Campaign. That only proves the Trump Campaign was interested in attracting votes and nor worried about content.
Voter Fraud and the email of Hillary Clinton was at the center of the momentum of the Trump Campaign. The immigration issue was as well. As of yet, I don't see references to immigration by Russians. They were concentrating their ethnic problems with African Americans and using that as a wedge issue. The Clinton Campaign was known, as a Democratic organization to carry African American voters in any election. At the time this was transpiring not cited in this report to date, Putin was filling Russian media with sympathy for the African American community in the USA and it's problems with law enforcement.
I find it curious the immigration issues that Trump ran on in 2016 was not the focus of a Russian ID group. I think Putin evaluated what it would take to push voters to Trump and decided long before 2014 it was important the Black Community would respond best to his interventions. Putin definitely wanted the African American voter pulling the election lever for Trump. It was enough of a percentage to ensure Trump's win without the Hispanic vote. His election research was completed before the project was begun. It also involved the idea of ending death. I don't mean to minimize the problems we face in the USA regarding racism, but, this American community was a focus of Putin's goals.
White Supremacists/Nationalists are hated by Russia. I believe it is primarily because of power and not the belief system. It seems to me as I read this report Putin concentrates on power and the movement of that power in favor of his outcomes. He is not aligned with belief systems, he chooses to align with areas of power within a country in order to achieve his goal. In this case, the 2016 Republican Party is known to be accepting of White Supremacists, but, in order for him to win the elections with Trump, he developed Group IDs that would move African Americans toward Trump. Putin knows what will be the ultimate goal and the ethnicity and belief systems of people are irrelevant to him. He wants power and once he has it, he doesn't care what happens to people, their identities or their beliefs. In reading this report I believe more than ever that Vladimir Putin is ruthlessly dangerous.
That idea of holding power is reflected in Russian actions as well. Putin has built a hospital for the wealthy in Russia. His inner circle has it's own hospital, physicians and staff. He also has seen the installation of mercy killing in Russia. Euthanasia. He is a very odd entity to me. On one hand, he protects tigers while ruthlessly carrying out power moves both internationally and domestically. Power moves that ensures his place at the top.
Oh, well.
A November 7, 2016 post from the IRA-controlled Twitter account @Pamela_ Moore 13 was retweeted by Donald J. Trump, Jr. 103
On September 19, 2017, President Trump's personal .. account @realDonaldTrump responded to a tweet from the IRA-controlled account @ l0_gop (the backup account of @TEN_ GOP, which had already been deactivated by Twitter). The tweet read: "We love you, Mr. President!"104
And doesn't Donald love to be loved, lies and all.
Oops, there it is. Russian content embraced by Trump. What a victory that must have been for the Russian IRA.
IRA employees monitored the reaction of the Trump Campaign and, later, Trump Administration officials to their tweets. For example, on August 23, 2016, the IRA controlled persona "Matt Skiber" Facebook account sent a message to a U.S. Tea Party activist, writin.g that "Mr. Trump posted about our event in Miami! This is great!" 105 The IRA employee included a screenshot of candidate Trump's Facebook account, which included a post about the Screenshot of Trump Facebook August 20, 2016 political rallies organized by the IRA.
Ah, it's that sweet. The Russians and Tea Party all are in this together.
"Mr. Trump posted about our event in Miami! This is great!"
It is all so cozy and a profound feeling of commonality and togetherness. I almost expect them to break out in song.
continued in next entry
