There’s a new Washington Post article out today that says Bernie Sanders was told by U.S. officials that Russia “is trying to help his presidential campaign”:
Breaking from WaPo: Bernie Sanders briefed by U.S. officials that Russia is trying to help his presidential campaign. Not clear what form the interference has taken: https://t.co/0T4fvjdbxe
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) February 21, 2020
The next stop is the FISA court to get a warrant, right? Isn’t that the next step?
That’s how this is supposed to work. If @realDonaldTrump was Obama – he’d keep this from Bernie and use it as justification to spy on his campaign instead. https://t.co/8vQs4kJDgo
— Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) February 21, 2020
Anyway, Team Bloomberg is trying to troll Sanders over it. This says “feel burn” in Russian, which we assume is supposed to be “Feel the Bern”:
чувствовать ожог
— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) February 21, 2020
Bernie’s response to Putin: “Stay out of American elections”:
Sanders on Russia: “Unlike Donald Trump, I do not consider Vladimir Putin a good friend. He is an autocratic thug…I don't care, frankly, who Putin wants to be president. My message to Putin is clear: stay out of American elections, and as president I will make sure that you do"
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 21, 2020
more Sanders, continuing to question how much of the "Bernie Bro" activity is real (though many are definitely real supporters of his): "Some of the ugly stuff on the internet attributed to our campaign may well not be coming from real supporters."
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 21, 2020
Would it even matter if Trump said this? Journos would never believe him anyway:
The contrast with Trump is key; every campaign and White House reporter in the country should demand to know if Trump will issue a statement as unequivocal as this, and if not, why not. (Spoiler: he won’t.) https://t.co/9TPiaIqFVP pic.twitter.com/VvAxmB2zrR
— subscribe to my newsletter (@brianbeutler) February 21, 2020
Case in point:
Trump, on hearing that Russia wanted to help him, fired his intelligence director. Sanders, on hearing that Russia wanted to help him, put out a statement calling Putin a thug and to stay out. https://t.co/C734gGT7Pv
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 21, 2020
And we’re already seeing conspiracy theories that this is disinformation put out by Trump officials:
US intelligence officials are trying to undermine Bernie Sanders’ campaign & credulous media outlets will help them. @MaxBlumenthal warned long ago that Russiagate would be weaponized against the left. This is an escalation of that. https://t.co/6yLpOnbdyF
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) February 21, 2020
Journos, be better. There will be much more of this, just like they did in 2012:
They sow discord, they manipulate, they poke and provoke. Trying to figure out “who they prefer” is such a waste of time and is counterproductive. Can we not do this. https://t.co/wUuBjQZOHG
— Rebeccah Heinrichs (@RLHeinrichs) February 21, 2020
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