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Hillary Clinton, the person ultimately responsible for launching the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, is now calling for Americans who engage in disseminating what she calls "Russian propaganda" to face criminal charges.
“It’s important to indict the Russians, just as [Robert] Mueller indicted a lot of Russians who were engaged in direct election interference and boosting Trump back in 2016. But I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda, and whether they should be civilly, or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence, because the Russians are unlikely, except in a very few cases, to ever stand trial in the United States,” the twice-failed presidential candidate told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
[Other individuals who engaged in misinformation regarding Russia influencing American elections are also likely to never go to trial.]
Clinton also accused Republican members of Congress of going “to the floor of Congress” and parroting “Russian talking points.”
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Clinton reportedly made no distinction whether the propaganda was baseless in calling for Americans to be criminally charged for “parrot[ing] Russian talking points.”
“I think we need to uncover all of the connections and make it very clear that you could vote however you want, but we are not going to let adversaries, whether it is Russia, China, Iran, or anybody else, basically try to influence Americans as to how we should vote in picking our leaders,” Clinton told Maddow.
Maddow had referenced "actions taken by the Biden-Harris Justice and State Departments against Russians who were allegedly pushing pro-Russian propaganda through a Canadian-owned media company based in Tennessee that worked with podcasters popular with conservatives and Independent audiences," Breitbart News reported. "The Biden administration also accused Russian entities of trying to influence the 2024 presidential election through websites that looked like legitimate news websites."
The Department of Justice stated in an indictment that the podcasters were deceived and did not know the Tennessee-based company they were working with was also being paid by Russians. The Left, nevertheless, has accused them of being Russian agents simply for not supporting the Ukraine War.
