Tracking all the president’s lies is a Herculean effort best left to the teams of political reporters at august publications with time and money to burn. But there was one lie Friday so flagrant and easy to disprove there’s no good reason not to point it out.
The Justice Department on Friday unveiled an eight-count indictment charging 13 Russian nationals in a conspiracy to defraud the United States by, among other acts, targeting US voters online with divisive propaganda intended to undermine faith in the integrity of the election process. One goal of the Kremlin-backed operation, as the US intelligence community first asserted in January 2017, was to swing the presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor.
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DOJ Charges 13 Russian Nationals Accused of Waging Online ‘Information Warfare’ Against US
The US Justice Department on Friday revealed an eight-count indictment charging 13 Russian…
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Although President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and the White House communications staff continue to lie about it to this day, the intelligence community has never claimed that the election’s outcome wasn’t influenced by Russia’s efforts—which included a numerous cybercrimes, covertly purchased online political ads, protests on US soil, and an information warfare campaign spread across multiple social media platforms.
Putting aside the fact that determining the impact on the election was outside the scope of the intelligence community’s assessment, it is practically impossible to say with any degree of certainty what was going through the minds of the 62 million American voters when they checked Trump’s name on the ballot. We’ll simply never know.
Source : gizmodo
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