Putin’s TikTok Influencers Return for Russiagate 2.0, While We Pretend Chinese Spies Don’t Exist!

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by Jeff Childers

Those rascally Russians are at it again! Buckle up. Russiagate 2.0 has officially begun, just in time for the election. The New York Times ran a story this morning headlined, “Russia Secretly Worms Its Way Into America’s Conservative Media.” Never mind they just caught another deeply embedded Chinese spy in New York. Putin is always the problem. And, even after reading the article, it’s not at all clear that ‘America’s conservative media’ was involved.

Remember that, during covid, the U.S. government paid influencers to push jabs and lockdown narratives. Biden and Cackling Harris are paying influencers to promote their campaign. And NATO paid influencers to come to their big confab recently to promote warmongering.

But when Russia does it, it’s pure evil.

The gist was that a couple Russians hired a Canadian PR firm called Tenet Media. Tenet then paid social media influencers, to buy original content that was publicly posted on Tenet Media’s website. Tenet then “promoted” its original media channels on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, etc.

This week, with great fanfare, including an appearance by Grandma Garland herself, the DOJ indicted two Russian employees of Russia’s TV network “Russia Today,” in absentia,  for money laundering and for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which is only enforced against conservatives. Hunter Biden could not be reached for comment. The DOJ’s indictment named but did not charge a variety of U.S. influencers like Tim Pool and Dave Rubin, describing them as unwitting victims of the foreign influence scheme.

The Times asked Russia Today to comment on the indictment, and the network promptly replied, “We eat U.S. D.O.J. indictments for breakfast. With lots of sour cream, usually.”

I would have guessed they’d eat it with ketchup, but maybe that’s just my American bias.

The DOJ’s indictment was unsurprisingly short on details of exactly what ‘influence’ the Russians were allegedly pushing. The only concrete example the indictment cited was general criticism of the Ukraine war, which seems like low-hanging fruit. I mean, I’ve personally dished out that kind of criticism in double handfuls. (Full Disclosure: I am not being paid by the Russians or anybody else for criticizing the Proxy War.)

It’s still gross, but this kind of pre-election DOJ censorship is vastly better than what we were dealing with the last time around. At least we can see them doing it this time.

In related news on Thursday, Politico (EU edition) ran a curious story headlined, “Putin: Kamala Harris laughs ‘infectiously,’ we want her to win.” The sub-headline added, “Russian leader again claims he’s rooting for the Democrats in U.S. election.” Claims? I guess they don’t believe him.

President Putin said Kamala’s laughter was what captured him. “She laughs so expressively and infectiously. That means she is doing well,” the Russian leader wryly explained. He further explained that, if Kamala does well, then maybe she’ll lift the economic sanctions that both Presidents Trump and Biden imposed.

But Putin further explained his support for Candidate Plan B is nothing new. “We previously said Biden was our preferred candidate. So now we will do as he said, we will support Ms. Harris,” he explained. Russia Today’s studio audience seemed pleased with the president’s endorsement.

Or at least amused by it. It’s hard to tell with Russians. Inscrutable.

You just can’t win with Democrats nowadays. Putin can endorse them all he wants, but if Russia Today hires a few influencers (exactly what the U.S. always does, here and abroad), well then, it’s war. Again.

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Re the new Russia Russia Russia indictment from this past week:

A dead giveaway that the DOJ isn’t serious about the case and the indictment is nothing more than a PR exercise, is when the only charges are conspiracies.

All DOJ has charged the two Russians with — and none of the others — is conspiracy to violate FARA and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.

No actual substantive crimes are charged.

But by charging conspiracies the DOJ gets to tell a story.

Instead of the indictment saying

“On or about (day/month/year) in the Southern District of New York, Defendant XYZ did blah blah blah” ….

DOJ gets to instead write:

Beginning at a date unknown but not later than (day/month/year), Defendant XYZ and Defendant ABC, along with others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, did knowingly combine, conspire and agree together and with one another to blah blah blah….”

After that you just write until you are tired of writing. There is no limit on the length of the story you want to tell, and when you know that the case will never find the inside of a courtroom — and no one has access to all the materials you were able to compile during the course of the investigation – what you write will never be second-guessed.

Persons caught up in the DOJ description of a “conspiracy” can never talk their way out of it.

By charging only “conspiracies” — an “agreement” to commit a crime — when the only “conspirators” are people who will never appear, others are trapped in the narrative with no ability to respond or fight back.

Tenet media received money from Russians. If the DOJ could really make a money laundering charge stick, Tenet media would have been charged.

One other giveaway — you never name the defendant AND file it unsealed when you know the defendant is outside the country.

Indictments are filed under seal every day all over the country when the defendant is not already in custody. By not sealing this indictment DOJ she a love note to the two defendants that says “Don’t come to the US or go to any other country where the US has an extradition treaty.”

[It was interesting how easy it was for me to slip back into writing the nearly memorized opening line of a conspiracy indictment. Nice to know – might come in handy in the not-too-distant future. ]

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I brought my old copy of America Alone by Mark Steyn to the top of my reading pile last night.
This, Russia, Russia, Russia “conspiracy” lie reminded me about how, ~20 years ago we were pointlessly bombing rocks over in Afghanistan while America and Europe tried to prove how nice they were by importing millions of Muslims.

Now major cities in Europe have been ceded to Islamic rule and Afghanistan is just as it was.
What is Deep State up to now that it is covering up/obfuscating with these Russia headlines?

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