DISINFO: The 2016 Russian interference in elections never existed
SUMMARY
It is now known, four years later, that there was no Russian interference in the 2016 elections and that Trump was right. The American intelligence services were run by Leftists, people who stayed from the Obama days and left a firecracker in the kitchen with that famous January 2017 report on the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, which never existed.
In 2018, Trump said what he thought was the truth. He had seen that there had been no interference in 2016, he knew it very well. The only thing that was found was $ 200,000 worth of Facebook advertising purchased by Russian entities after the election. Not during the elections. After. So, it was completely crazy. And this whole Russian interference file was held by one guy; Christopher Steel, a former British service official who may have been a Russian agent, it is quite possible. He is the one who invented tricks from Trump in Moscow etc. ... and unfortunately it took three years to establish that.
RESPONSE
Recurrent claim about Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections.
The Mueller report of March 2019 contains many details about how Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, both by using social media to influence American voters with disinformation and by hacking into the Clinton campaign’s computers.
A previous (2017) report prepared by the US Intelligence Community analysed the motivation and scope of the Kremlin's intentions for the US election and the Kremlin's use of cyber tools and media campaigns to influence US public opinion. The report concluded that Moscow interfered in the US elections and that it had carried out this effort "in sweeping and systematic fashion". As concluded earlier by the US intelligence community and by Mueller’s own inquiry: “the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts”.
Mueller's report determined that there were "two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election". The first involved attempts by the Internet Research Agency to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the US to sow social discord, with the aim of interfering with the election. The second involved the Russian government's efforts to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election.
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