state dept spamming Russians With Text Messages Offering $10 Million For Information On Election Interference

dawp

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geniuses at work, this will likely end badly

“I thought that this was some type of fraud,” Russian Artyom Vysokov told BuzzFeed News. “Sending such text messages through a service that usually sends spam was not the best idea.”
 

tweaker2

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We shouldn't forget that whatever's being done by the Trump administration has as its top priority keeping Trump in the White House for another term and out of the hands of those folks who are looking to throw the book at him for crimes he's already known to have committed and those they'll find out for sure once Trump doesn't have his job to keep him insulated from prosecution.

All roads lead back to Trump hanging on to his job and all roads leading back to keeping his job ends up at the Kremlin. The Russians are going to pull out all the stops to keep Trump from negotiating his way out of the crimes he's committed that implicates Putin and those other Russian oligarchs of whom Trump have substantial loans from that he needs to make good on.
 

hal2kilo

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IronWing

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The Russian government could pick up a cool $10 million and further destabilize the US by taking Pompeo up on his offer. Take out an ad in WaPo laying out everything they have done to interfere in the elections and help Trump would be an epic move on Putin's part.
 

nickqt

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The Russian government could pick up a cool $10 million and further destabilize the US by taking Pompeo up on his offer. Take out an ad in WaPo laying out everything they have done to interfere in the elections and help Trump would be an epic move on Putin's part.
$10 million to the Russian government or Russian Billionaire Oligarchs is equivalent to $2.00 to you.

They don't care about pocket change. They care about power which can be used to print money.

They use the Firehose of Falsehood. Their specific intent is to continually lie so that most people can't identify what is truth and what is false. The confusion and apathy it breeds is the goal. The people being lied to adopt the lies because admitting they've been cheering on the liars making fools of them makes them feel uncomfortable and stupid.

What Russia would most likely do is take credit for getting Trump elected in their own country with a smirk and grin, while denying it out loud here through state media like RT.
 

Meghan54

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Oh snap! I misread the OP's headline. I thought it said.....

state dept spamming Russians With Text Messages Offering $10 Million For Information On How to Commit Election Interference