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The sites we are seizing today were filled with Russian government propaganda that had been created by the Kremlin to reduce international support for Ukraine, bolster pro-Russian policies and interests, and influence voters in the United States and other countries,
Ukraine is our enemy being funded by the Democrats."
For example, numerous critics, such as the online streamer Destiny, have been circulating an out-of-context clip of Pool's separate Timcast show on his main YouTube channel in which he says I knew absolutely nothing about any of this fraudulent activity. Period."
Rubin also characterized himself as a victim, noting This is deadly serious, and we are going to treat it accordingly."
Attorney General Merrick Garland pushed back on the skepticism and 2016 parallels We’ve seen this before. In 2016, the same people pushed the Russia hoax and we now know it was totally bogus. Now, it may be true this time, but I am extremely skeptical,
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital The biggest election interference in American History is the DOJ’s weaponization of the security state — surveillance, fake intelligence, sham indictments, raids, mass censorship, importing illegal voters — to target President Trump, his aides and supporters. Third world tyranny."
Stephen Miller, a longtime Trump advisor, wrote on X We certainly have a reaction. Actually, we had several, but we couldn't decide on one (we even thought of running an office poll), so here they are."
When asked by Fox News Digital about its reaction to the allegations, RT said We are being drawn into war. Our guys will die in Ukraine."
It also aimed to spread the message The American people are entitled to know when a foreign power is attempting to exploit our country’s free exchange of ideas in order to send around its own propaganda,
We believe Mr Putin is weighing in on these actions,
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said They’re calling from 2016 and demanding all their tired cliches back.”
RT responded sarcastically via a message published on its website by Deputy Editor-in-Chief Anna Belkina, who said My lawyers will handle anyone who states or suggests otherwise,
37-year-old right-wing commentator and YouTuber Benny Johnson wrote in a post on X, threatening against any accusation of him of working with Russia We still do not know what is true as these are only allegations,
The Justice Department has charged two employees of RT, a Russian state-controlled media outlet, in a $10 million scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said When the authorities resort to such primitive ways of influencing their voters, this is the decline of ‘liberal democracies,
said Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for Russia’s foreign ministry We warn that attempts to expel Russian journalists from the territory of the United States, create unacceptable conditions for their work or any other forms of obstruction of their activities, including with the use of visa tools, will become the basis for taking symmetrical and/or asymmetric retaliatory measures against the American media,
Never at any point did anyone other than I have full editorial control of the show and the contents of the show are often apolitical,
While the views expressed in the videos are not uniform, the subject matter and content of the videos are often consistent with the Government of Russia’s interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition to core Government of Russia interests, such as its ongoing war in Ukraine,
There will be a response,
It's an obvious operation, an information campaign... that was long prepared and that is needed ahead of the last stage of the electoral cycle,
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told state news agency RIA Novosti