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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT Article Suggests Bannon is Flagrantly Colluding with Russia
The ferocity of the attacks coming from the faction of the party allied with Stephen K. Bannon, the presidents chief strategist, had General McMasters associates convinced that it was no coincidence. At one point on Friday, Breitbart News, formerly run by Mr. Bannon, had close to a dozen headlines on its home page about General McMaster, like McMaster Deeply Hostile to Israel and to Trump.
The #FireMcMaster hashtag was tweeted more than 50,000 times since Wednesday. Echoing the drumbeat were social media organs tied to the Russian government. According to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan group created to focus attention on Russian interference in the West, the top hashtag among 600 Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations at one point on Thursday was #FireMcMaster.
The #FireMcMaster hashtag was tweeted more than 50,000 times since Wednesday. Echoing the drumbeat were social media organs tied to the Russian government. According to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan group created to focus attention on Russian interference in the West, the top hashtag among 600 Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations at one point on Thursday was #FireMcMaster.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/5/1687134/-NYT-Article-Suggests-Bannon-is-Flagrantly-Colluding-with-Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/us/politics/trump-mcmaster-national-security-conservatives.html
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Not to mention, this is pretty much identical to what Team Trump was doing during the campaign. From McClatchy, in March:
Operatives for Russia appear to have strategically timed the computer commands, known as bots, to blitz social media with links to the pro-Trump stories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive in his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, these sources said.
The bots end products were largely millions of Twitter and Facebook posts carrying links to stories on conservative internet sites such as Breitbart News and InfoWars, as well as on the Kremlin-backed RT News and Sputnik News, the sources said...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article139695453.html
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NYT Article Suggests Bannon is Flagrantly Colluding with Russia (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2017
OP
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(81,855 posts)1. Basically the crime is still occurring.
And people like Bannon and Hannity are willing accomplices to Putin.
Faux pas
(14,665 posts)2. K N R-ed