DOJ Indicts 2 RT employees for Money Laundering to Influence Election at Direction of Russia (1 Viewer)

[MT15]

Starting this thread because of course every influencer cited is in the bag for Trump. I saw the story on CBS national news and they showed a clip of Tim Pool, they blurred his face but it was obvious it was him from the stupid arse sock hat he wears everywhere to hide his bald head.



I’m hoping this becomes a bigger story. We all know Russia is actively helping Trump.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-accuse-russia-effort-influence-2024-election-cnn-2024-09-04/

 

[bird]

Damn, I was hoping the initials of one were DJT.

 

[MT15]

Through a company in TN, RT paid for divisive YouTube content to the tune of $10M.

“The Tennessee company produced nearly 2,000 videos on topics like immigration and inflation that have been viewed 16 million times on YouTube since last November, according to the Justice Department.
In one instance, Afanasyeva told the company to provide a video that blamed Ukraine and the United States for a terrorist attack on a Moscow music venue, the Justice Department said.
The indictment does not name the Tennessee company or charge any of its executives with wrongdoing. However, it alleges that the company failed to disclose that it was funded by RT and its executives never registered with the Justice Department that they were acting as agents of a foreign government.

The Justice Department has previously warned that Russia remains a threat in the election and appears to be favoring Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Kamala Harris.”

 

[MT15]

Here is an example of Tim Pool:

 

[MT15]

A different article that goes into the recipient of the millions from Russia. Benny Johnson and Tim Pool are claiming they are innocent victims and had no idea that the money was coming from Russia.

Media start-up from Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, and Dave Rubin was secret Russian influence campaign, indictment alleges

Famous pro-Trump commentators may have been unwittingly duped.

www.dailydot.com

 

[MT15]

The original post that got me started looking at this:

So the DOJ indicted Tenet Media over Russian misinfo.

here is an exhibit from indictment - Russian talking points

Read them and then think about the last 2 months of Trump/Vance speeches and "interviews"

 

[MT15]

Tim Pool has 2M followers on Twitter, Benny Johnson has 2.7M followers, Dave Rubin has 1.5M, Lauren Southern has 562K. These are not small accounts, plus they all have YouTube Channels, plus multiple other social media presences.

 

[efil4]

Wait til you find out the owners of Tenet are also part of Turning Point USA.
And Tucker Csrlson is also wrapped up in this. (Text messages from Discord were seized ).

Guess that trip to Moscow was an infomercial.

This needs to be unwound fully to get the complete picture of how money matter over everything else. Even if it means spreading propaganda from our adversaries.

 

[efil4]

NOW let's see what these Podcasters talk about going forward.

Bet the topics change dramatically unless they find another revenue stream. Which will be really hard when under investigation

 

[MT15]

NOW let's see what these Podcasters talk about going forward.

Bet the topics change dramatically unless they find another revenue stream. Which will be really hard when under investigation

I haven’t read the indictment, but the talk on Twitter is that these guys certainly knew where the money came from and were given their talking points. I’m hoping for some sort of criminal charges for all of them. The executives of the media company to the “talent”.

Oh and Junior was on almost all of these shows at various times repeating the same Russian talking points.

How many MOC are involved? The GOP has been parroting Russian talking points for years.

 

[MT15]

According to this guy, this case may be linked to the raid of Scott Ritter some time ago. Scott Ritter is a real piece of shirt - former Naval Intelligence, sex offender, turncoat for Russia. Similar to Flynn. He had his passport seized earlier this year and was raided this summer.

Scott Ritter - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[MT15]

Lawyers are starting to plow through the indictment. This is a long thread that goes into great detail. Just posting first 2 tweets. This part confirms they were told what content to make.

 

[Maxp]

Please tell me Glen Greenwald didn't miss out on this huge pay day?

 

[MT15]

Please tell me Glen Greenwald didn't miss out on this huge pay day?

He will be more slippery. He hasn’t lived in the US for years. I’m positive he’s getting paid by Putin, though.

 

[MT15]

First link to a MOC - Mike Lee of Utah. He’s been dispensing Russian talking points for quite a while, turns out he credits Benny Johnson with talking him into his Twitter account.

 

[MT15]

So the influencers are claiming they didn’t know the money came from Russia. The indictment proves the media executives did know, however, and that the people were given the content they had to promote. Their content was so obviously pro-Russian that they HAD to know who was paying them.

Cowardly traitors, every one of them.

 

[MT15]

Weissman thinks that since the Tenet media founders weren’t charged, even though the indictment makes clear that they knew they were colluding with Russia, that they may have been indicted previously under seal and are now cooperating.

 

[efil4]

So the influencers are claiming they didn’t know the money came from Russia. The indictment proves the media executives did know, however, and that the people were given the content they had to promote. Their content was so obviously pro-Russian that they HAD to know who was paying them.

Cowardly traitors, every one of them.

Deniability. At the end of day, when getting giant sums of money to talk into a mic for a couple hours a day, attain some celebrity status, they don't care where the orders came from nor why.

It was all greed. 100% taking advantage of the current state of affairs and bilking for as much as the could for as long as it lasted.

Also known as con artists.