Rachel Maddow notes an particularly specific warning from the director of the ODNI's National Counterintelligence and Security Center that "pro-Russia Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Derkach is spreading claims about corruption" as part of Russia's efforts to manipulate the 2020 U.S. election against Joe Biden and in support of Donald Trump. Derkach has not only been using Rudy Giuliani to spread his claims, but Republican senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley have also been receptive to the Russian tactic. Aired on 8/7/2020
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Russian Election Interference Finds Ready Conduit In GOP Senators | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Daily Reminder: Trump called Covid-19 a Democrat hoax that would “magically” disappear.
@Mary Phillips-Blackshear So sorry for the loss of your brother. 🙁
@Chris Pacheco you have lost a reasonable response so you go to the school yard name calling. That’s what is in the white house can’t govern so call names.
@Mary Phillips-Blackshear I call anyone names who spreads harmful misinformation during a global healthpandemic.
Natster Jam d
@Turey Taino it’s spelled Iraq.
92% Of the Republicans are Russian puppets!!
Save America, Vote blue!
Just the idea that YOU’RE LOVED ONES IN THE MILITARY ARE BEING HUNTED BY THE VERY PEOPLE IN CAHOOTS WITH AMERICAN SENATORS IS INSANE!!!!
@J <- tRumpists and their trolls always write stupid texts with wrong facts, so nothing.
@I HACKED TWITTER._ <- tRumpists and their trolls always write stupid texts with wrong facts, so nothing.
@Dewayne Smith Gosh I hope so! But probably not even 12 years, knowing the ignorance of typical American voters.
support Russia is a good thing for good people. Russia is a Heart of the Land, should be protected with all cost
We have an overt Russian asset in the Oval Office, operating in the open for the world to see.
And Trump STILL hasn’t uttered one word about the bounties that Putin has placed on the heads of our troops in Afghanistan. And he never will. However, Trump won’t hesitate to use brute force against peaceful protesting American citizens. Let that sink in for a moment.
Trump has abandoned and betrayed our troops, the same way he has abandoned and betrayed our States and the American people to deal with the coronavirus.
Make no mistake, Putin is America’s enemy, and not because we want him to be, he’s America’s enemy because that’s what he has chosen to be. Trump is a Russian asset, and not because that’s what we want him to be, he’s a Russian asset because that’s what he has chosen to be. We should treat them both accordingly with the choices that they have made..
Semper Fi..
TheBase1aransas The only landslide occurring is in Russia, were the citizens of that country can’t vote against the tyranny because if they do you’ll never see them again… The Putin army stifles its own. 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬‼️‼️‼️
Anna Jorgensen That whole family is going to jail, first time in history the president of the country and all of the little Trumpy’s are going to jail hallelujah
As I have said a hundred times over the past 3.5 years — there has to be a sharpshooter who is a patriot out there somewhere.. Don’t worry — there isn’;t one in 160 million jurors who would find you guilty.
Well said
Macdonald Maurice right!? That’s what I don’t get… why would anyone be afraid of that Buffoon?
Konstantin Rykov is a propagandist arm of the Putin government machine. “Rykov is considered to be one of the leading pro-Kremlin bloggers in Russia,” said Michael McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia .
Konstantin Rykov is the Russian who created Putin’s troll farm, and has boasted online that he helped get Trump elected. His claims of involvement with the Trump team can’t be dismissed for 2 reasons: first, he is very close to Putin, and had a long history of involvement with top levels of the Russian government; and, second, his description of how Trump’s campaign put together an effective internet strategy for information warfare is very close to the evidence revealed in the Mueller Report.
At about 11:14pm on November 6th, 2012, enough states were called for President Obama that he was declared the winner of the election. At 11:29pm, Trump blasted out the following defiant tweet:
Trump: “We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!”
11:29 PM – Nov 6, 2012
Konstantin Rykov saw Trump’s tweet pop up in his Twitter feed.
Almost exactly four years later, on November 12th, 2016, Konstantin Rykov tells what happened next in a pair of Facebook posts. In the first post, Rykov explained how he first made contact with Trump:
Without a moment’s thought, I wrote him a reply, “I’m ready. What should I do?”
Trump replied with a picture. In the picture he was sitting in the armchair of his jet, smiling cheerfully giving the thumbs-up sign.
Rykov explaines how things went from there:
“For four years and two days .. it was necessary to get to everyone in the brain and grab all possible means of mass perception of reality. Ensure the victory of Donald in the election of the US President. Then create a political alliance between the United States, France, Russia (and a number of other states) and establish a new world order.
Our idea was insane, but realizable.
In order to understand everything for the beginning, it was necessary to “digitize” all possible types of modern man.
Donald decided to invite for this task — the special scientific department of the “Cambridge University.”
British scientists from Cambridge Analytica suggested making 5,000 existing human psychotypes — the “ideal image” of a possible Trump supporter. Then .. put this image back on all psychotypes and thus pick up a universal key to anyone and everyone.
Then it was only necessary to upload this data to information flows and social networks. And we began to look for those who would have coped with this task better than others.
At the very beginning there was not very much. A pair of hacker groups, civil journalists from WikiLeaks and political strategist Mikhail Kovalev.
The next step was to develop a system for transferring tasks and information, so that no intelligence and NSA could burn it.
Keep in mind, Konstantin Rykov revealed all of this on Facebook just four days after Trump was elected. It was before people started asking questions about Cambridge Analytica or targeted social media ads. Rykov might have been boasting as he spiked the football in the end zone. What he didn’t think at that point, however, is that he had any reason to hide what he’d done.
His comments were also made well before details of Russian meddling in the presidential election were reported in the mainstream media. If Rykov wasn’t involved, then how on earth would he know as much as he confessed?
@Darth Wheezius
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@Darth Wheezius
Thank you.👍
@Ugly German Truths Actually, it is NOT a load of tosh. When Cambridge Analytica was busted and suddenly “disappeared” the next day, there were quite a few in-depth reports of all sorts of high connections, meetings and collaborations they had across the political and academic field in Britain, and how then literally everyone with a name in those fields was suddenly flipping backwards to deny the contacts and meetings. Similar to the usual clean up and denials of any well-documented connections, when any Brittish member of aristocracy, a celebrity or a member of the academic world is proven to have had in any “unsavoury” case. Through money, status or privileged birth, some Brits are literally untouchable when it comes to even revealing their actions and connections, let alone any of them ever facing any consequences for what they did. And if even the pedophiles can deny the photos showing them with their victims, then of course the esteemed university has “nothing to do with anything…” Had any of US been implicated in much less in connection to Cambridge Analytica, we’d be sitting behind bars long ago. Also, even if one detail in any legal report is proven to be wrong, no court in the world would dismiss the entire report because “who knows what else might be wrong there too.” That is how propaganda innuendo operates.
Yo can I have some links to read this stuff for myself
Well Said
TRUMP HAS ASKED RUSSIA TO GET INVOLVED
TRUMP SAYS NOTHING BAD ABOUT RUSSIA OR PUTIN
RUSSIAN BOUNTY ON AMERICAN MILITARY
So nothing Grasley says now can be trusted, and his people need to vote him out asap.
He needed to be out years ago
Like I’ve been saying,
He cant win unless he cheats even more obviously so this time
America is literally falling apart in front of our eyes
@Crystal Giddens Division is Trumps biggest tool and he knows how to appeal to the base nature of his followers
@Crystal Giddens They are and have been for centuries but at the same time they know ways to circumvent parts of the system in Russia and make thier lives a little better . Also a lot are not driven by the greed and corruption of western countries , a lot just want to live thier simple lives without politics , as long as they have a roof over thier head and food in the cupboard they are o.k .similar thing in Ukraine , they have a garden for vegetables , goats for milk and cheese , they sell and barter , nice simple life without politics
@david thomas Does the irony of fighting over who is causing the division escape you?
It’s not falling apart, it’s being dismantled.
In order make a decent omelette one needs to break eggs. It’s all going as the Universe planned, you are about to see a new world. The pandemic is the straw that is finishing the job of breaking the back of the camel( no offence to camels) that has made the world a place of wars, racism, hatred and people like Trump.
Honestly why are these mercenaries still in public service? They no longer care nor remember their vote of office, and became traitors for the country iin order to stick with their tribe.
Let’s vote all these traitors out. Let’s save our country and children’s future. Enough is enough.
I want _The Donald_ gone like most others on this video, but she conveniently left out one thing that happened back in the 2016 election. The Steele Dossier. That is what Republicans are going to use as justification, because there were no repercussions after the Democratic Party used it for opposition research… I really do feel that should have been mentioned in this.
I can’t believe this is real life for Americans. I pray Biden wins, and starts sending these TRAITORS to prison. God, help us.
charlielauffer absolutely spot on… we need to fasten our seatbelts because he will have to be dragged out of that office if he hasn’t killed us all by then.
razumfrackle oh wow. You are so smart
John Doe yeah John Doe… we will all be waiting
John Doe fake news!? Who needs news reporting to figure out what and who Trump is… every time he opens his mouth he displays his lack of intelligence and incompetence.
razumfrackle come on man, you are ridiculous
I prefer Presidents that AREN’T Russian puppets!
Like Obiden?
Grasley is not the only Russian asset from Iowa. Kimmy, Joni and the Republican constituents of the state are as well. But hey… as long as they get their farm subsidy payments it’s ALL OK.
Instead of using the food to feed our hungry. I will not watch people eat while I don’t. Watching food rot we the people paid for rather than feed the people whose money pay for those subsidies
So, when does Russia get away with bounties on your diplomats or politicians without a response?
Trump has destroyed America and letting our enemies in to tear us down
Trump is a modern Trojan Horse.
It’s pretty sad that the most effective way that America’s enemies can bring the country down is to help get the current president re-elected… 😒🍊💩
They are already on social media. Trump trolls and bots They don’t know anything about Trump. They aren’t even familiar with Trump’s most recent infamous quotes. Most of them clearly aren’t even Americans . They are just blatantly lying . I can see why liars share a soft spot for Trump.
Trump is getting desperate. He realizes his presidency is slipping through his fingers. Trumps plan is to win at all cost even if that means cheating.
Terrence Bowden. He is corruption personified!
He’s cheated all his life , he figures why stop now
@Edward Neuman Because if he doesn’t then he and a thousand other corrupt politicians/lobbyists are going to be unprotected by the office of the WH. Trump best hope his Russian hotel has been built by November because otherwise he and his fellow fascist instigators will have nowhere else to go.
All of this explains why Ron Johnson felt the need to cart his backside to Russia a while back! Planning trip? Brown nose much Ron? Explains why you don’t spend any time responding to Wisconsin residents!
Any sitting president who takes mother russia’s word over their own intelligence agencies, is a traitor to the US and should be removed from office immediately.
And exiled off our shores.