“I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternative narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine, not Russia, attacked us in 2016.” (Fiona Hill)
All 17 US intelligence agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.) concluded that the Russian government and military, at the direction of Vladimir Putin, meddled in the 2016 US election. This attack was an attempt to weaken Hillary Clinton and boost Donald Trump. No one knows if this attempt affected the election results of 2016. Russia’s involvement was confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Mueller investigation.
Donald J. Trump, for the last three years has dismissed, contradicted and questioned these findings, and has developed his own alternative reality about the 2016 election. His followers have bought into it. The narrative is that the Ukrainian government meddled in the 2016 election with the purpose of aiding Clinton. Ukraine framed Russia and coordinated with Democrats to smear Trump. The conclusions of the bureaucrats (the US Intelligence agencies, the Mueller report, etc.) are not to be trusted.
US Intelligence officials say that Russia has, in fact, promulgated the Trump story, shifting blame away from themselves to Ukraine. Nine witnesses in the impeachment inquiry over the past several weeks have testified that any story of Ukraine meddling in the 2016 election has been fabricated by the Russians and is unsupported by evidence.
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy was asked by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace yesterday if he believed Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. He answered: “I don’t know, nor do you, nor do any others….It could also be Ukraine. I’m not saying that I know one way or another.” Reminds me of Donald Trump saying, “It could have been a 400 pound couch potato.” Representative Lee Zeldin yesterday on TV said, “I believe that the Russians interfered in the 2016 elections…It’s also true, it’s indisputable that there were Ukrainians who interfered in the 2016 election.” Senator Roger Wicker yesterday said that Ukraine—as well as Russia—interfered in the US election and “I’m concerned about both.”
Can you believe it? The President of the United States and his Republican colleagues repeating and validating Vladimir Putin’s fictional narrative, a narrative “perpetuated and propagated by the Russian Security Services themselves.” It is like saying my favorite Bible verse is “God helps those who help themselves” when, in fact, and the truth is, that verse is not in the Bible!
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