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ffr

(22,671 posts)
Sat Sep 29, 2018, 03:00 AM Sep 2018

Russian's working overtime online again trying to help tRump's pick, Kavanaugh.

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:


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) ffr Sep 2018 OP
How do we know duforsure Sep 2018 #1
Look to the son of former Justice Kennedy Grasswire2 Sep 2018 #4
K&R Scurrilous Sep 2018 #2
K&R HAB911 Sep 2018 #3

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
1. How do we know
Sat Sep 29, 2018, 04:20 AM
Sep 2018

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
Sat Sep 29, 2018, 01:35 PM
Sep 2018

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|

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