![]() She drew a line from the Russian misinformation of 2016 to Trump’s misinformation during his presidency and about his election loss. I asked CNN’s Katelyn Polantz, who has covered the Mueller report and the Ukraine scandal for CNN, for her takeaway on the long tail of these stories. The misinformation spreads to Covid, to vaccines, everywhere. That’s not going to stop anytime soon, regardless of what Facebook does to Trump or how many Russian misinformation efforts it takes down. Trump, Russia and other actors generally seek to polarize the country by spreading false facts. Facebook, the simmering pot of misinformation from all sorts of sources on all sorts of topics, announced Wednesday that a specially convened board would punt for six months on whether to permanently bar Trump from the service. Despite Trump’s impeachment, we may still learn from the active federal investigation into what exactly Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani was doing for Trump in Ukraine and elsewhere. “The review of the document reveals that the Attorney General was not then engaged in making a decision about whether the President should be charged with obstruction of justice the fact that he would not be prosecuted was a given,” Jackson wrote.Īdjacent to Russia’s interference in 2016 is Trump’s attempt to dig up dirt on Joe Biden ahead of 2020. The opinion included emails showing that Justice Department officials were drafting the memo on obstruction at the same time as the four-page letter Barr sent to Congress summarizing Mueller’s findings. Jackson concluded that the redacted memo showed that it was drafted even though the decision not to prosecute Trump had already been settled, suggesting Barr misled lawmakers and the public about the decision not to charge Trump with obstruction of justice. Key line from CNN’s Jeremy Herb on Wednesday: Read more about the Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s decision here. Barr slow-walked the release of the Mueller report and tried to blunt its effect after already deciding it would not allege criminal wrongdoing. But a remarkable critique by a federal judge this week and her decision that the Department of Justice must publicly release a highly redacted memo prepared for Barr makes it seem like the fix was in Trump couldn’t be charged no matter what. We were led by then-Attorney General William Barr to believe that they were not. The announcement Thursday establishes a simple and direct channel of communication from the upper echelon of the Trump campaign to the Russian agencies that were meddling to help Trump win.īack to whether Trump’s actions may have been criminal. ![]() It has long been suspected but never explicitly stated by the US government that Konstantin Kilimnik passed internal Trump campaign data from former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to Russian intelligence services. Key line from CNN’s Marshall Cohen in April: Read more about that revelation, buried in a Treasury release here. The Treasury Department made the revelation of Russia’s 2016 interference in April, announcing new sanctions for Russia’s attempted election meddling in 2020. Did Trump’s 2016 campaign interact with Russians and did those Russians send information back to the Kremlin? Yes. The 2016 version of misinformation came from Russia. ![]() While Trump can’t spread misinformation on Twitter (ever again) or Facebook ( at least for the next six months, we learned Wednesday), we’re starting to get a clearer sense of the line between misinformation in 2016, misinformation in 2020 and how it might look now that the majority of the GOP has decided to mainline misinformation going forward. We can’t really ever know all the truth, but we are still learning new facts about how former President Donald Trump’s campaigns and administration warped perception.
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