A few days after counsel Robert Mueller announced an indictment against several Russians for meddling in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump latched into Mueller’s finding that Russians organized and promoted anti-Trump rallies after the election.
Trump attacked the media for covering the rallies and appeared to suggest that cable news networks may have known the rallies were organized by foreigners posing as Americans on social media.
Bad ratings @CNN & @MSNBC got scammed when they covered the anti-Trump Russia rally wall-to-wall. They probably knew it was Fake News but, because it was a rally against me, they pushed it hard anyway. Two really dishonest newscasters, but the public is wise!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 21, 2018
Trump’s tweet came after conservative news outlets pointed out on Monday that the cable news networks covered a Nov. 12 of an anti-Trump rally. The conservative site NewsBusters first highlighted this, and the Daily Caller then picked it up.
Mueller’s indictment found that Russians promoted both a pro-Trump rally and an anti-Trump protest on the same day in November as part of the effort to sow discord in the U.S. elections process.
Pro tip for the Trumpers.
This is formally known as stirring the pot:
Dotard is slipping - he forgot to mention what a great candidate he was.
Trump Latches Onto Mueller Finding That Russians Pushed Anti-Trump Rallies
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Trump grasps at any straw he can as the SS Trump goes down.
Ignoring all the anti Hillary blather they also generated.
Ignoring that it was the primary mission to sow discord
Ignoring the fact that you have done exactly Jack shit about it over the last year while condemning everyone EXCEPT the Russians and Putin
It will be a great day in America when you are gone
I haven’t seen a witch hunt or Russia hoax tweet in past few days. Maybe we are experiencing [drum roll please]…
The Presidential Pivot!
on second thought, nahhhhhhhhhh.
Anything anti-Trump during that time period before the election made his feral supporters more determined to vote. Anything after the election just keeps the divisions in the country going, something Trump himself has done. And the Russians have certainly been busy on social media and otherwise, even after the election in Nov. 2016. Their efforts didn’t stop there and neither has Trump’s (he began his 2020 campaign right around the time of the inauguration).You could just as easily conclude that Trump is still “colluding” with the Russians to divide the country and keep it divided.