Adviser to President Trump says Mueller investigation was a greater problem for democracy.
Brian Bennett, left, and Jared Kushner participate in a panel discussion during the TIME 100 Summit 2019 on Tuesday in New York City. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic April 23 at 3:17 PM Jared Kushner needs to spend some time with the report of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Such clever understatement of Russian interference obliged Bennett to set the record straight: It wasn’t just that the Russians bought a “couple ads” on Facebook; they organized groups and orchestrated events on the soil of the United States and accomplished their intrusions in other ways as well. And just as Bennett noted, the IRA’s work leaped from the keyboard into the streets. Rallies were orchestrated, mainly to support Donald Trump’s candidacy: “From June 2016 until the end of the presidential campaign, almost all of the U.S. rallies organized by the IRA focused on the U.S. election, often promoting the Trump Campaign and opposing the Clinton Campaign.
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