Mueller charges 13 Russian nationals in attack on 2016 US General Election

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While the traitor trump is still pretending he’s president Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is closing the ring on him. The latest step is to go directly after the Russians most directly involved in the cyber attack on the US.

Thirteen Russians and three Russian companies were charged Friday with an elaborate plot to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election through social media propaganda aimed at helping Republican Donald Trump and harming the prospects of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, prosecutors announced Friday. The indictment, brought by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, represents the most direct allegation to date of illegal Russian meddling during the election. It says Russians created bogus internet postings, posed online as American political activists and fraudulently purchased advertisements — all with the goal of swaying political opinion during the bitterly contested race.
Sound familiar, guess who showed up here right after the election and attacked anyone critical of trump or Putin. Why are we letting a criminal even post here?
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Inside a 3-Year Russian Campaign to Influence U.S. Voters By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTIFEB. 16, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/politics/russia-mueller-election.html WASHINGTON — In September, as the first detailed evidence surfaced of Russia’s hijacking of social media in the 2016 election, Irina V. Kaverzina, one of about 80 Russians working on the project in St. Petersburg, emailed a family member with some news. “We had a slight crisis here at work: the F.B.I. busted our activity (not a joke)," she wrote of the project in Russia. “So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues." She added, “I created all these pictures and posts, and the Americans believed that it was written by their people." A 37-page indictment, handed up on Friday by a Washington grand jury and charging Ms. Kaverzina and 12 other people with an elaborate conspiracy, showed that she and her colleagues did not, in fact, hide their tracks so well from United States investigators. The charges, brought by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, introduced hard facts to a polarized political debate over Russia’s intervention in American democracy, while not yet implicating President Trump or his associates. The indictment presented in astonishing detail a carefully planned, three-year Russian scheme to incite political discord in the United States, damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and later bolster the candidacy of Donald J. Trump, ...
The Troll Farm: What We Know About 13 Russians Indicted by the U.S. By IVAN NECHEPURENKO and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZFEB. 17, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/world/europe/russians-indicted-mueller.html
Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian Oligarch Indicted by U.S., Is Known as ‘Putin’s Cook’ By NEIL MacFARQUHARFEB. 16, 2018
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