The U.S. intelligence community believes the Kremlin will direct its propaganda efforts to support former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election, an intelligence official indicated on a media call Monday.
Iran is likely to continue to try to denigrate Trump, the official said, and China doesn’t appear to have a preference in the presidential race but may try to interfere in congressional races.
The call, held by the Foreign Malign Influence Center, one of the few arms of the U.S. government devoted to countering foreign propaganda campaigns, elaborated on an agency alert about foreign propaganda campaigns released Monday afternoon.
The official’s remarks were the clearest sign yet that the U.S. believes Trump remains Russia’s preferred candidate even after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee.
I’ll go ahead and file that one under “No shit!”
It’s always disengagement propaganda. They know they’re not going to get the left to vote for Trump. What we need to look out for is manipulated media cutting down Harris to discourage turnout.
We’re guaranteed to see a big wave of misinformation or muckraking with her VP choice.
You mean like: the DNC picked Harris, nobody voted for her, or she’s a prosecutor/cop who locked away hundreds for dime bags of weed, or somehow linked to her being a “border czar” even though she never was one, or her laugh I guess?
Thankfully everything I’ve heard so far is a “throw everything at the wall to see what sticks” approach.
You’re right about the VP pick mudslinging though.
Exactly. It’s been the play for decades. It’s never been about how good the Republican candidate is, just why you shouldn’t vote for the Democrat.