MAGA, Beijing edition
America’s biggest adversaries evidently want Donald Trump to win the 2024 presidential election.
Vladimir Putin’s preference for Trump has long been clear. And now China’s government is taking steps to help Trump’s presidential campaign.
Do you suppose that some of our frequent posters could be Chinese hackers in disguise?MAGA, Beijing edition
America’s biggest adversaries evidently want Donald Trump to win the 2024 presidential election.
Vladimir Putin’s preference for Trump has long been clear. And now China’s government is taking steps to help Trump’s presidential campaign.
As my colleagues Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers report:
Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, promoting conspiracy theories, stoking domestic divisions and attacking President Biden ahead of the election in November, according to researchers and government officials.
The accounts signal a potential tactical shift in how Beijing aims to influence American politics, with more of a willingness to target specific candidates and parties, including Mr. Biden ….
Some of the Chinese accounts impersonate fervent Trump fans, including one on X that purported to be “a father, husband and son” who was “MAGA all the way!!” The accounts mocked Mr. Biden’s age and shared fake images of him in a prison jumpsuit, or claimed that Mr. Biden was a Satanist pedophile while promoting Mr. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
Putin Says He Prefers Biden Over Trump.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/world/europe/putin-biden-trump-us-election.html
TDS+RDS=Lunatic!!!![]()
A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath (Published 2018)
View the totality of Russia’s influence campaign, and how Russian contacts, hacking and social media fraud often coincided during the election.www.nytimes.com
Like I said back then there may not be day to day direct “collusion” but there was ample evidence Russia acted as a surrogate “Super PAC” for the trump campaign. Just about every single trump foreign policy idea is exactly what Putin would want to see happen.![]()
A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath (Published 2018)
View the totality of Russia’s influence campaign, and how Russian contacts, hacking and social media fraud often coincided during the election.www.nytimes.com