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“What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party--and specifically Donald Trump,” the report says. “Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting.”
The new report offers the https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/19/mccains-geezer-ryans-an-absolute-nobody-russias-playbook-sounding-american-facebook-propaganda/?utm_term=.d14bc4782de6 (latest evidence that Russian agents) sought to help Trump win the White House. Democrats and Republicans on the panel previously studied the U.S. intelligence community’s 2017 finding that Moscow aimed to assist Trump, and in July, https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-report-affirms-intelligence-communitys-conclusion-that-russia-favored-trump-over-clinton/2018/07/03/4f0f03a2-7ef7-11e8-bb6b-c1cb691f1402_story.html?utm_term=.0e57f91e6bba (they said investigators) had come to the correct conclusion. Despite their work, some Republicans on Capitol Hill continue to doubt the nature of Russia’s meddling in the last presidential election.
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Facebook was particularly effective at targeting conservatives and African Americans, the report found. More than 99 percent of all engagement -- meaning likes, shares and other reactions -- came from 20 “Pages” controlled by the IRA, including “Being Patriotic,” “Heart of Texas,” “Blacktivist” and “Army of Jesus.”
Together the 20 most popular pages generated 39 million likes, 31 million shares, 5.4 million reactions and 3.4 million comments. Company officials told Congress that the Russian campaign reached https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/10/31/facebook-google-and-twitter-are-set-to-testify-on-capitol-hill-heres-what-to-expect/?utm_term=.abebe04bb838 (126 million people) on Facebook and https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/01/fiery-exchanges-on-capitol-hill-as-lawmakers-scold-facebook-google-and-twitter/?utm_term=.6cb2b8d80261 (20 million) more on Instagram.
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DOHA, Qatar— Things continue to not look great for Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner’s push for a Middle East peace deal.
How could this be? It’s not for a lack of meetings, of which there have been 37 in the almost two years since Trump took office, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Sunday at the Doha Forum in Qatar. Erekat himself has met with Kushner and others in the Trump administration 33 times, and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has had four summit meetings of his own. But Erekat’s last meeting with Kushner took place more than a year ago and it did not go well, according to his account of the situation.
In fact, you could fairly describe it as a disaster. Kushner revealed Trump’s plan to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, blowing up a long-standing agreement by US presidents to hold back on such a move until the final status of Jerusalem is resolved. It didn’t go well from there.
Rather than trying to shoehorn Erekat’s description of what happened into the usual news article format, here’s a transcript of Erekat’s account of his final meeting with Jared Kushner — at least for the time being — which happened on November 30, 2017. Less than a week later, President Trump announced publicly he would move the US embassy to Jerusalem.
President Trump is happy to send the military to the border as a political prop before the midterm elections, to order up a grand paradedown Pennsylvania Avenue for his review and to berate athletes who kneel during the national anthem as disrespectful of the military.
But visiting the troops that he has ordered to the front lines in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria has been a bridge too far for this commander in chief.
“I’m going to a war zone,” http://time.com/5461009/donald-trump-war-zone-visit-planned/ reporters in November, when pressed about his conspicuous lack of war zone visits.
So far, he’s all talk and no boots on the ground.
The president is expected to spend 16 days at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays — his longest trip to the “Southern White House” since the inauguration in 2017. The weather there is expected to be a sunny 75 degrees. Perfect for a few rounds of golf, or more than a few.
