To be clear, my working theory is that Sanders was likely more of a "useful idiot" than an intentional Russian operative. Stein, who knows. She's so far out there it could go either way, IMO.
To be clear, my working theory is that Sanders was likely more of a "useful idiot" than an intentional Russian operative. Stein, who knows. She's so far out there it could go either way, IMO.
Oh wow, thanks for sharing. I had no idea. This excerpt from the first link seems very telling.
"Stein's 2016 campaign was heavily promoted by RT. She hasn't spoken much about the RT dinner, but in an interview with NBC News last fall, she deflected questions about her appearance, instead chastising the U.S. media for not paying attention to her campaign while RT gave it a lot more attention.
"And my own connection to RT, you know ironically, it takes a Russian television station to actually be open to independent candidates in this country and that is a shame. A shameful commentary on our own media," she told NBC's Alex Seitz-Wald.
(Stein did well enough to help Russia achieve its aims. Her vote totals in the crucial states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan were all greater than Clinton's margin of defeat, and arguably denied Clinton an Electoral College victory.)"
Yes, re Bernie and Jill Stein--what CheeringCharm, and pitta12 said. Also, Bernie's wife is under investigation for her dealings as President of Burlington College in which she falsified a loan application to acquire land from the Catholic Church to expand the College. It went bankrupt under her watch. Again, this (if known to Russians or others) could be used as leverage against them. The bots were also working to promote Jill and Bernie (to harm HRC) and we don't know what Jill and Bernie knew about that. We have some data points on Jill and Bernie and I'm sure Mueller's team is looking into it carefully.