Russia again favours Republican Donald Trump as its preferred candidate to win the US presidential election this year, a US intelligence official has said.
The official, briefing reporters on US election security, was careful not to name the former president and presumptive Republican nominee when asked who Moscow wants to see as the next US president.
But he indicated that Russia favoured Trump, adding that the US intelligence community had not changed its assessments of Moscow’s preference from previous elections.
“We have not observed a shift in Russia’s preferences for the presidential race from past elections, given the role the US is playing with regard to Ukraine and broader policy toward Russia,” the official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said on Tuesday.
Previous assessments found that Moscow had tried, through influence campaigns, to help Trump win in 2016 against Hillary Clinton and in the 2020 campaign which he lost to current US President Joe Biden.
US Intelligence report: Russia is favoring Donald Trump once again.
The huge flood of nigh-identical posts in the last day mocking Biden's age, health, etc, making "jokes" about him dying, and all leading to the same punchline of "One's old and the other's a Nazi, so they're both Equally Bad"... that's not coincidence. It's not organic. Y'all know this is a bot-driven psy-op, right? Even when real people pick up on it, they're taking their cues from whoever is paying the bots/paid trolls.
A reminder that Jill Stein already has a record of serving as a useful idiot for Trump. She and Trump's future National Security Adviser (and still QAnon fanatic) Michael Flynn were in Moscow in 2015 for an anniversary celebration for RT – Russia's international propaganda channel. You don't sit at Putin's table just because he enjoys your delightful dinner conversation.
Trump himself is a useful idiot for Vladimir Putin. Hapless third party losers are useful idiots for a useful idiot. SAD!
July 2016: Tryzub, Ukraine's coat of arms, made out of military equipment in Donbas during the russo-Ukrainian War that began with russia's invasion in 2014.