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underpants

(198,126 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 06:38 AM 15 hrs ago

(X & expandable meme) Trump released docs showing Russia was acting FOR TRUMP in 2020

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This is really incredible. Docs released by Trump tonight confirm RUSSIA tried to spread claims Biden was engaged in criminal activity vis-a-vis Burisma and that it advanced those narratives "with US officials" and planed a "high-profile corruption scandal... at the peak of the 2020 US presidential campaign."






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(X & expandable meme) Trump released docs showing Russia was acting FOR TRUMP in 2020 (Original Post) underpants 15 hrs ago OP
Sloppy on steroids malaise 14 hrs ago #1
Dear Leader has spoken. Dear Leader can not be wrong. underpants 12 hrs ago #6
Russian Hoax LessAspin 14 hrs ago #2
"Biden and the DEEP STATE planted that there" durablend 9 hrs ago #11
Expect that release to vanish soon. The Madcap 13 hrs ago #3
Kick dalton99a 13 hrs ago #4
Well, well, well. tanyev 13 hrs ago #5
Lucky the traitor and allies are so frigging stupid. Kid Berwyn 12 hrs ago #7
Their players here underpants 9 hrs ago #10
The very model of a modern VRWC Echo Chamber Kid Berwyn 8 hrs ago #12
Russia Russia Russia. As some orange moron puts. Swede 12 hrs ago #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Midnight Writer 10 hrs ago #9
Putin & Trump LessAspin 1 hr ago #13

malaise

(300,321 posts)
1. Sloppy on steroids
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 06:47 AM
14 hrs ago

a classic kakistocracy - baffle the peons with bullshit - full speed ahead.
Phew! I’m off for my morning walk.

Kid Berwyn

(25,771 posts)
7. Lucky the traitor and allies are so frigging stupid.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 09:13 AM
12 hrs ago
Newly Declassified Documents Show Russia Meddled to Help Trump in 2020

JP Alegre
The Deep Dive, 17 July 2026

President Trump used a primetime address Thursday to announce the declassification of intelligence documents he said would prove China interfered in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden win. One of the documents in the same release concludes the opposite: Russia, not China, worked to damage Biden’s candidacy and boost Trump’s.

Trump said newly declassified CIA and FBI reporting showed China “attempted to manufacture illegal ballots” for Biden and that the Chinese Communist Party “sought to prevent his reelection,” and claimed China illegally acquired 220 million American voter files. He did not explain how the data reached China or present evidence it was used to alter any results.




CNN‘s review of the documents found they largely restate vulnerabilities known for years, and that “none of the declassified information supports the claim that any previous election results… were manipulated by foreign interference or fraud.”

A document marked as declassified by Trump on July 3 says otherwise. “Russia is using a range of measures primarily to denigrate former Vice President Biden,” it reads, adding that “Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump’s candidacy on social media.”

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https://thedeepdive.ca/newly-declassified-documents-show-russia-meddled-to-help-trump-in-2020/

Kid Berwyn

(25,771 posts)
12. The very model of a modern VRWC Echo Chamber
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 01:12 PM
8 hrs ago

From PBS / AP article in OP:

Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. They are at large, and it was not immediately clear if they had lawyers.

Can't find if they ever did face trial.

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