‘This is Ridiculous’: Russia Indictments Unrelated to Trump, Election Outcome

I will call your attention to the very end, paragraph 95. It turns out that they were using these accounts to receive money in exchange for posting promotions and advertisement," he added.

The paragraph reads: "Defendants and their co-conspirators typically charged certain US merchants and US social media sites between 25 and 50 US dollars per post for promotional content on their popular false US persona accounts, including Being Patriotic, Defend the 2nd and Blacktivist."
President Donald Trump arrives to board Air Force One for travel to Palm Beach from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., February 2, 2018.
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Trump Denies Collusion in Tweet After Indictment of Russian Nationals

This, according to Kavanagh, shows that the operation was just a scam, similar to "journalists who bought Twitter followers to create false accounts in order to make money."

But the indictment didn't mention the Russian government, Becker pointed out, suggesting that anything, everything, and anyone "Russian" inevitably links to the Russian government itself.This kind of stuff doesn't even compare to the kind of stuff that we do to clear other people's elections and the way that we would want to twist them. I don't really think there's that much here," Jatras added.

The former US diplomat instead believes that the indictment is just an attempt to keep Americans from questioning the behavior of their government.

"Over the past few weeks we have seen so much about how the Justice Department, the FBI, the State Department and the CIA have been mixed up — by the way I would include MI6 and Government Communications Headquarters as being involved in this — [in] trying to subvert the rule of law… this is an attempt to come back and say ‘Never mind all this, look at that, Russia, Russia, Russia.

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