"Every elected official in the Ukraine was for Hillary Clinton. Is that very different than the Russians being for Donald Trump?"
—Senate Intelligence Committee Richard Burr Chairman, admitting something quite revealing about Trump and the GOP's acquiescence to Russia 1/5
—Senate Intelligence Committee Richard Burr Chairman, admitting something quite revealing about Trump and the GOP's acquiescence to Russia 1/5
Of course, there's a big difference: Ukrainian leaders hoped Hillary Clinton would win because they have been under invasion from Russia, and Trump signaled support for Russia, thus those continued invasions, while Clinton stood firm in support of Ukraine. But... 2/5
As Chairman Burr is aware, Ukraine didn'y try to hack US election systems to help Hillary, nor target Americans with fake news & deceptive social media ads, nor hack the RNC or try to hack the Trump campaign.
Russia did those things to the US, DNC, & Clinton to help Trump. 3/5
Russia did those things to the US, DNC, & Clinton to help Trump. 3/5
The media has to be clear about this: By pushing the idea that a handful of Ukrainian officials vocalizing support for Clinton is the same as Russia's systemic attack on our elections, top Republicans like Sens. Burr and Kennedy are now acting as full-blown Russian assets. 4/5
That's not comfortable for our media ecosystem, which treats bothsidesism and "balance" like holy edicts that we must not let facts & truth get in the way of, but it's staring us all right on the face.
These senators know they're repeating 🇷🇺 propaganda. They're doing it anyway.
These senators know they're repeating 🇷🇺 propaganda. They're doing it anyway.
