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The Russians Are Getting Heavily Involved In The Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight
The Russians are always looking for ways to divide and weaken America, and Republicans have handed them a new one by pushing the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.
Here is a chart of hashtags that the Russian influence operation is most active with on Twitter right now:
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The Hamilton 68 dashboard, which attempts to track Russian influence operations on Twitter, is charting a lot of Kavanaugh activity right now. https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
10:27 AM - Sep 28, 2018
As you can see the Russian influence networks are working hard on the pro-Kavanaugh side, according to the alliance for securing democracy:
The Russians have also been cheering on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) - PoliticusUSA
The Russians are always looking for ways to divide and weaken America, and Republicans have handed them a new one by pushing the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.
Here is a chart of hashtags that the Russian influence operation is most active with on Twitter right now:
Dustin Volz (Twitter)
✔
@dnvolz
The Hamilton 68 dashboard, which attempts to track Russian influence operations on Twitter, is charting a lot of Kavanaugh activity right now. https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
10:27 AM - Sep 28, 2018
As you can see the Russian influence networks are working hard on the pro-Kavanaugh side, according to the alliance for securing democracy:
The Russians have also been cheering on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) - PoliticusUSA
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Russian's working overtime online again trying to help tRump's pick, Kavanaugh. (Original Post)
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Sep 2018
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duforsure
(11,885 posts)1. How do we know
Kavanaugh isn't putin's pick? Or russians didn't funnel money to kavanaugh or his campaign funds to get this nomination and its process paid for?
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)4. Look to the son of former Justice Kennedy
No one is currently examining that. There's some speculation at the link.
Justin Kennedy loaned Donald Trump a billion dollars when he was head of global services at Deutsche Bank. Justice Kennedy stepped down to make space for Kavanaugh, many say.
[link:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-kennedy-trump-kavanaugh-supreme-court-20180710-story.html|