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Re-reading this article on how Putin is mainlining disinformation into Trump & thus America. Putin attacked USA, to elevate Trump to victory, Trump wins, then Putin blames Ukraine & Trump then seeks to punish Ukraine. Kremlin = win, win, win.... washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
“He would say: ‘This is ridiculous. Everyone knows I won the election. The greatest election in the world. The Russians didn’t do anything. The Ukrainians tried to do something,’ ” one former official said." - How does one work in the intelligence community at this point?
Sure would like to know what any meeting notes from Hamburg said, what the interpreter heard.....
from Jan 2019, regarding the Hamburg Putin meeting 2017 - "including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials" washingtonpost.com/world/national…
How did the "Ukraine did it" narrative arrive in America? Who was the linguist in Hamburg?
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