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✅Charges of Ukraine Meddling IS a Russian Operation. US Intel says Russia’s run a yearslong disinformation campaign to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans are using the same Russian propaganda to defend Trump from impeachment nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/…
Blaming Ukraine has been Russia's go-to propaganda to try to export blame for its own crimes. Putin's larger strategy is to divide & conquer the entire postwar US-led democratic order, as historian @TimothyDSnyder chillingly warned us all in 2015: eastwestblog.net/2015/03/18/tim… #Maddow
Republicans were BRIEFED y'all‼️ They are KNOWINGLY trafficking in Russia's disinformation—planted here by a network of agents—Russians, Ukrainians, oligarchs, businessmen—to blame Ukraine for their own crimes. Let's face it: Trump & the entire GOP—what's left of it—are traitors.
@TimothyDSnyder Given Republicans were briefed about their Russian propaganda, I'd call their #impeachment strategy #PeddleToTheMeddle. GOP furiously peddled disinformation & still end up w/ a terrible argument: Bad Ukraine meddled in 2016, therefore Trump asked them to meddle again in 2020🤨
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Yes, Who writes like that? But the real question is, Who talks like that? The answer's NOBODY. That's just not how most English speakers say they DON'T want something. We don't say "I want NO x." We say "I DON'T want x." Trump's "I want no quid pro quo" is propaganda & a lie.
More precisely, I-want-no-quid-pro-quo is a CYA lie, now #impeachment propaganda. Trump said it to Sondland AFTER Congress found out about a whistle-blower. Trump had been pressuring Ukraine for QPQ for months. Zelensky even booked the TV announcement! The jig was up thx to WB.
Trump said the awkwardly phrased "I want no quid pro quo" b/c he was caught & was telling Sondland how to frame the denial. Everyone knew what was happening. And they covered it up, hoping it would somehow be ok. Insanity, thinking Trump wouldn't destroy this like everything else
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#Sondland says it all: We were playing the hand we were dealt. We didn't want to work w Giuliani. But WE FOLLOWED THE PRESIDENT'S ORDERS. At the time we didn't think we were engaging in improper behavior. Giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for WH visit. #ImpeachmentHearings
@HouseIntel #Sondland: I opposed withholding security aid to Ukraine. I shared my concerns of the potential quid pro quo w/ @SenRonJohnson. NSC BOLTON, Hill, Morrison all knew what we were doing. State Dept POMPEO knew & approved of all our activities, as late as Sept. #ImpeachmentHearings
@HouseIntel @SenRonJohnson #Sondland names many WH & State officials including #Mulvaney, #Pompeo… "A lot senior officials" knew. July 19 email informed everyone. "Everyone was in the loop." He slams White House & the State Dept for refusing to provide notes, call records & documents. #ImpeachmentHearings
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Paula Chertok🗽
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When Everything Is Illuminated, it will show #Putin Firtash Parnas Giuliani & #Trump wanted #Yovanovitch gone b/c her success in helping #Ukraine create independent ANTI-#corruption institutions make corrupt gas deals & fake investigations a thing of the past
#Holmes #Impeachment
#Holmes: #Yovanovitch helped #Ukraine achieve hard-fought establishment of independent anti-#corruption court. This strained relations w prosecutor Lutsenko who resisted fully empowering truly indep anti-c institutions that would help ensure nobody was above the law. #Impeachment
🔥Stunning #Holmes, p2: In March 2019, US policy of supporting Ukraine's democratic reform & resistance to Russia "became overshadowed by a political agenda being promoted by Rudy Giuliani and a cadre of officials operating with a direct channel to the White House." #Impeachment
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The @GOP is doing #Putin’s bidding.🤬

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Fiona Hill to target Republican argument Ukraine influenced 2016 election. "This is a fictional narrative perpetrated and propagated by Russian security services... I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternative narrative that the Ukrainian govt is a US adversary..
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I've talked before about Russian #disinformation, and how the goal is to exploit existing divisive issues to weaken the enemy. 1 #InformationWarfare #WednesdayWisdom #CambridgeAnalytica #Russie #Putin #deza
Bernie v. Hillary, Benghazi & the "email scandal" were perfect targets. There was already tension & division on those topics, so they were easy to exploit. 2
Russia also targeted #peopleofcolor (specifically black voters) to sow distrust of Hillary & the political process, which helped Trump's campaign. 3
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