Amid the news that Facebook plans to arrange to turn over ads bought by Kremlin-linked entities during the 2016 campaign to Congress, President Donald Trump lashed out and dismissed the belief held by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 election as a “hoax.”
Trump claimed that the real issues with the 2016 election were Hillary Clinton and the “fake news media” instead:
The Russia hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook. What about the totally biased and dishonest Media coverage in favor of Crooked Hillary?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2017
The greatest influence over our election was the Fake News Media "screaming" for Crooked Hillary Clinton. Next, she was a bad candidate!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2017
Facebook announced Thursday it would turn over Russian ads from the 2016 election to Congress. A Kremlin-linked troll farm spent about $100,000 on political ads during the 2016 election, which Facebook has begun to remove.
Trump has long dismissed the Russia probe as a “hoax” and denied that his campaign tried to collude with Russia. In July, when news broke that Donald Trump, Jr. and other campaign aides met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, Trump called the investigation a “witch hunt.” At a rally in August, he called the probe a “total fabrication.”
Do we really need to keep hearing about this? It’s all dog-bites-man.
This will all be good material for the eventual / inevitable documentary on the collapse of the Drumpf Crime Family…
He knows the snare is tightening.
somebody is getting scared…
Per Sam’s story here last week, there were Twitter bots too. What happens when that story is so prominent it can’t be ignored?
Oh, Donald…Is Twitter going to be “fake media”?
It’s gonna be choice!
Trump:“I did not have Social Intercourse on that website”