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U.S. Intel Briefs Bernie Sanders That Russia is Trying to Boost His Presidential Run
Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
“It’s like a nightmare, isn’t it? It just keeps getting worse and worse.”
– Grady Seasons in The Color of Money
Just when you thought America would eventually get over its addiction to scapegoating The Russians!™ for helping any political and anti-establishment outsiders to get elected, here they go again.
As I predicted earlier this morning, it was only a question of time before the US establishment would blame those dastardly Russians for Bernie Sanders double-digit lead in national polls.
It was only yesterday, when we learned how the “IC” aka the vaunted Intelligence Community (a verified oxymoron at this point) has finally decided that the Russians are already active behind the scenes trying to swing the 2020 US Presidential Election in favor of President Trump.
You really have to marvel at how a grown adult professional can get away with this frivolity. If it weren’t so tragic, it might actually be funny. It’s really kind of disturbing to read tweets like this:
We are now in a full-blown national security crisis. By trying to prevent the flow of intelligence to Congress, Trump is abetting a Russian covert operation to keep him in office for Moscow’s interests, not America’s. https://t.co/Vj6lUV5ZNu
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) February 21, 2020
Then 24 hours later the great paragon of honest journalism, the Washington Post, then tells us that intelligence officials have brief Senator Bernie Sanders about how Russia is attempting to elevate his presidential campaign (no actual specifics were given, only a gut feeling we’re told) as part of a grand plot to “interfere with the Democratic contest.”
Of course, the Post’s source for this ‘bombshell’ was no one specific, just “according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.”
How reassuring. It must be true then.
So basically, this means that it’s now open season on Sanders – in the debates, with rude and cynical questions from CNN moderators, and imbecile questions from the likes of Chuck Todd. Soon Sanders will have no choice but to accept media spot on Fox News. His Democratic primary competitors are all struggling for traction, so you expect they will take advantage of this latest psy-op.
I ran this poll as a joke yesterday, not expecting it would begin to come to fruition so soon.
With #BernieSanders jumping out into double-digit lead nationally (WashPh/ABC Poll), it's only a matter of time before the scapegoat is introduced.
Which Dem will be the first to blame #Russia for Sanders popular support? #BernieBros #BidenIsCorrupt
— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) February 20, 2020
Just when thought American politics and media couldn’t sink any lower into the banal, anti-intellectual quicksand of RussiaGate, they seem to have done it again.
Even sadder than the realization that America’s media has fallen off the cliff of sanity, is the how Bernie Sanders himself appears to have swallowed the RussiaGate hoax rhetoric hook, line and sinker. If anyone wants to see a sneak preview of how Bernie might perform as President in the face of US intelligence agencies dictating their worldview to the White House, you needn’t look any further than this tawdry vignette.
Warning, you are about to experience some seriously painful reading
Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post had to stick no less than FOUR different names on this story to launder it and spread the blame around when the paper eventually is forced to admit this is 100% pure fake news….
Washington Post: “Bernie Sanders briefed by U.S. officials that Russia is trying to help his presidential campaign”
It is not clear what form that Russian assistance has taken. U.S. prosecutors found a Russian effort in 2016 to use social media to boost Sanders’s campaign against Hillary Clinton, part of a broader effort to hurt Clinton, sow dissension in the American electorate and ultimately help elect Donald Trump.
“I don’t care, frankly, who Putin wants to be president,” Sanders said in a statement to The Washington Post. “My message to Putin is clear: Stay out of American elections, and as president I will make sure that you do.
“In 2016, Russia used Internet propaganda to sow division in our country, and my understanding is that they are doing it again in 2020. Some of the ugly stuff on the Internet attributed to our campaign may well not be coming from real supporters.”
A spokesperson for the Sanders campaign declined to comment on the briefing by U.S. officials on Russia’s efforts.
Sanders has frequently warned about the threat of foreign interference in U.S. elections and criticized Trump for not doing enough to stop it.
