Russian national charged with attempting to interfere in 2018 midterms

[WeekiWater]

A Russian who allegedly worked on funding online propaganda efforts to manipulate voters in the 2016 and 2018 elections was charged with a federal crime Friday as part of a wider conspiracy to hurt American democracy.

Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, 44, of St. Petersburg, Russia, is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States for managing the financing of the social media troll operation that included the Internet Research Agency, which special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators charged with crimes earlier this year.

Prosecutors who unsealed the complaint Friday say she aided the Russian effort to "inflame passions" online related to immigration, gun control and the Second Amendment, the Confederate flag, race relations, LGBT issues, the Women's March and the NFL National Anthem debate from December 2016 until May 2018.

CNN

[Scurrilous]

1. K&R

[Hortensis]

2. Wonder if she has a DU membership.

Some of her messages seem to be sufficiently grayed to fool the easily fooled into believing them moderate and reasonable. All are emphatically pushing bigoted right-wing messages that fall in with the worst of trumpism, though.

"Every deported illegal household saves taxpayers $700,000. This is why it's very important to keep families together as they are being deported."

Ridiculous number, and not refugee families with no place to go!

[MineralMan]

3. I think she moved over to JPR after the 2016 election night hack.

[Hortensis]

6. :) Could be! We know agents are always adding

water to their boiling vinegar.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. One od Trump's very fine people.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Makes you wonder, are the Russians behind the caravan?

[rockfordfile]

7. good