DISINFO: Russiagate never had any real basis
SUMMARY
The Trump administration has had a troubled life since its earliest beginnings and “The Donald” did not have time to settle in the White House before he was already being charged with grave and explicit accusations of being a Russian agent, a traitor in the hands of Vladimir Putin who was blackmailed by the Kremlin. A few days before his term of office expired, Barack Obama ordered the CIA and FBI to investigate so-called “Russian interference” in the American elections: it was the beginning of Russiagate. Russiagate never had any real basis. It originated in Washington’s labyrinthine power struggles.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation denying Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election and seeking to discredit the Mueller report. The article also contains a recurrent pro-Kremlin conspiracy theory about the key role allegedly played in the investigations of Russian interference by the deep state in the US .
Robert Mueller's investigation concluded that Russia did interfere in the 2016 election. Robert Mueller’s report maintains that “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities”. Nevertheless, it states that Russian interference activities did take place.
The 448-page Mueller report issued in March 2019 (see here) contains copious detail about how Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, both by using social media to influence American voters with disinformation and by hacking into the Clinton campaign’s computers.
A previous (2017) report prepared by the US Intelligence Community analysed the motivation and scope of the Kremlin's intentions for the US election and the Kremlin's use of cyber tools and media campaigns to influence US public opinion.
As concluded earlier by the US intelligence community and by Mueller’s own inquiry “the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts”.
Read here previous cases claiming the Russiagate was a hoax invented by the American deep state and that the Mueller Report never presented tangible evidence of Russian interference in the US elections.