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Trump Campaign Staffers Pushed Russian Propaganda Days Before the Election
Kellyanne Conway and Donald Trump Jr. pushed messages from an account operated from Russia’s ‘troll farm’—including allegations of voter fraud a week before Election Day.
10.18.17 5:51 PM ET
Some of the Trump campaign’s most prominent names and supporters, including Trump’s campaign manager, digital director, and son, pushed tweets from professional trolls paid by the Russian government in the heat of the 2016 election campaign.
President Trump’s National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster on Saturday responded to the indictments against Russian nationals and entities for interference in the 2016 election.
While answering a question at the Munich Security Conference, McMaster said that the evidence of Russian meddling is now “incontrovertible and available in the public domain, whereas in the past it was difficult to attribute.”
McMaster also shunned the idea of working with Russia on cybersecurity, saying "we would love to have a cyber dialogue when Russia is sincere about curtailing its sophisticated form of espionage."
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the indictments on Friday.
“The indictment charges thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the United States political system, including the 2016 Presidential election,” the Justice Department noted in a news release. “The defendants allegedly conducted what they called ‘information warfare against the United States,’ with the stated goal of ‘spread[ing] distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general.’”