attacks the fbi or the justice department or some other, you know remember when he attacked the judiciary. right. i don t think anything matters to him but him and his own personal reputation and his butt. so, the question here, greater question i m interested in is how all of this online activity found its way into our real lives. so, following the indictment filed by robert mueller, the new york times published a report detailing the nature of russian election infiltration online. the times writes, quote, around mid 2015, the russians began buying digital ads to spread their messages. a year later, they tapped their followers to help organize political rallies across the united states. nbc s les field and indicate list katie engel heart introduced documentaries how one small town in idaho was hit with that exact kind of russian influence. in 2016 there was this facebook event advertised in
an effort on the hill to try to heighten these efforts to prevent future meddling, i think that would be a way for them to say, we are taking this seriously. instead he just continues to brush it aside and that is sort of harder for him to justify with what his own national security team is saying. in the last tweet he went on to say that the russians didn t have any influence. that is simply not true. the fact that they didn t maybe they didn t break in and change ballot counts like that, but as a campaign professional, you ve got 13 operatives and a multi-million dollar budget and you re advertising like crazy. of course it had an effect. it is unquantifiable whether it would change the election, but it clearly had an effect. the piece of this, julia, that i keep that i keep tripping over is this man is the commander in chief and there doesn t he doesn t seem to have taken it is obvious to say he hasn t taken a step from being candidate to president. in this case the stak