David Corn: This Is the ‘Third Election in a Row that the Russians Tried to Intervene to Help Donald Trump’

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What do you make of this indictment and what it has revealed?
>> You know, we have to look at this a little bit in historical context. This isn’t coming out of nowhere. This is now the third election in a row that the Russians have tried to intervene to help Donald Trump. They did it in 2016. And Donald Trump said it wasn’t happening. He lied. He aided and abetted the attack. And the whole Republican Party, most of it, and the conservative movement ended up agreeing with him because they didn’t want to be caught — cross swords with him on this point. Right there, he led them into this Russian denialism. In 2020, we kind of forget about this because Trump didn’t win, but Ukrainian officials who were tied to Russian intelligence according to who, according to Trump’s own Treasury Department, were putting out disinformation about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. It didn’t work, but it made the election close. And the right-wing was amplifying this stuff, Rudy Giuliani and others, Fox News, over and over again. So the Russians have a pretty clear idea about how to play this. It’s nothing new for them. They have had years of experience. And here they are out there with these right-wing commentators, also with these websites that are out there ginning up right wingers to push these talking points as we get closer to the election. It’s going on, and the right has just refused to acknowledge this. And for some, it’s very profitable to not acknowledge