Come to light. Democrats were promising a new direction for the war, and to make their case theyd just nominated a decorated war veteran to be their nominee, a man whod been awarded the silver star, the bronze star, and three Purple Hearts for valor in combat. Thank you im im john kerry, and im reporting for duty senator john kerry made his Military Service in vietnam a central part of his campaign for president that year. In the weeks after he accepted the democratic nomination, kerry consistently led the incumbent, president george w. Bush, in the but then in august everything changed. In that was when these campaign ads startedca airing. I served with john kerry. I served with john kerry. John kerry has not been honest about what happened in vietnam. He is lying about his record. Its a central image of john kerrysl campaign, the candida literally wrapping his arms around his vietnam teammates. Now republicans are challenging kerrys war effort with a tv ad featuring other Vietnam Vet
in the united states and around the world. i m john avlon in for kasie hunt. it is friday, december 22, yes, i m wearing a candy cane tie. stunning new revelations into just how far donald trump went to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. a new report from the detroit news alleging that then president trump pressured two election officials in wayne county, michigan to not certify the results of the vote, that is according to audio recordings they have reviewed for a phone call trump made in 2020 following the election. the newspaper reports that he told them we can t let these people take our country away from us and everybody knows detroit is crooked as hell. joining me now, joey jackson. thanks for getting up early for us. this recording seems to go to the core of the case jack smith is building against trump, namely that he actively conspired to overturn the 2020 election. and you remember of course that phone call pressuring georgia election officials to find him vote
The people breaking glass. are they talking about the people that put up the gallows to say hang mike pence. the people that signed fake electoral votesa at the behest of the tru campaign. is it legitimate political discourse for john eastman and jeffrey clark to basically make fake theories overruling the constitution and 12th amendment and electoral count act of 1887. those two guys. is it legitimate political discourse, those two that pled the fifth amendment before the january 6 committee? i don t think so.
Posts from those russian accounts. the report says the president himself was retweeting posts by russian media propaganda officers. the one that i love is putting out all sorts of wild stuff with conspiracy claims, making digs at the clinton campaign. on october 15th, 2016, brad a digital media director for the trump campaign retweeted the account. thousands of deplorables chanting to the immediamedia t truth. retweet if you re done with biassed media. according to the report,@ten gop was controlled by russian trolls.
alex sta months was facebook s chief security officer during the cyber operation. they hired young russians with western language skill who is then study western society by watching television, watching movies and reading our online postings and then trying to turn around those issues and amplify them. as the presidential election approached, internal ira documents showed the russian hs taken sides. we re out 2016 ira account pub lushed support iing the tru campaign. it s very likely that the russians assumed like the entire american political establishment that it donald trump wasn t going to be elected president. that hillary clinton would probably win. but if they could weaken clinton, if they could undermine her credibility, that would serve their aims when she became president. pages 14 to 35 of volume 1