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The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/20/us/politics/russia-interference-election-trump-clinton.htmlON AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION, a huge banner was unfurled from the Manhattan Bridge in New York City: Vladimir V. Putin against a Russian-flag background, and the unlikely word “Peacemaker” below. It was a daredevil happy birthday to the Russian president, who was turning 64.
In November, shortly after Donald J. Trump eked out a victory that Moscow had worked to assist, an even bigger banner appeared, this time on the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington: the face of President Barack Obama and “Goodbye Murderer” in big red letters.
Police never identified who had hung the banners, but there were clues. The earliest promoters of the images on Twitter were American-sounding accounts, including @LeroyLovesUSA, later exposed as Russian fakes operated from St. Petersburg to influence American voters.
The Kremlin, it appeared, had reached onto United States soil in New York and Washington. The banners may well have been intended as visual victory laps for the most effective foreign interference in an American election in history.
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/20/us/politics/russia-trump-election-timeline.html
(The original article in the OP also provides this link, but to be sure people see this).
I've been following (OK, obsessively) this story for almost 3 years now, so only a few details (the posters! OMG) are new to me. But seeing all the threads pulled together here:
And this is just what's public. . . imagine what Mueller must know by now.
(The original article in the OP also provides this link, but to be sure people see this).
I've been following (OK, obsessively) this story for almost 3 years now, so only a few details (the posters! OMG) are new to me. But seeing all the threads pulled together here:
And this is just what's public. . . imagine what Mueller must know by now.