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MelissaB

(16,420 posts) Thu Mar 8, 2018, 06:16 PM Mar 2018

Daily Caller goes full Kremlin & publishes op-ed by Oleg Deripaska, Russian oligarch w/ close

ties to Putin & Paul Manafort. They aren't even pretending anymore.

I will link to a tweet with the article, but not the article itself. If you are interested in the article, click the tweet and follow from there.

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Deripaska's op-ed in @DailyCaller didn't come out of nowhere. They were among first GOP media outlets to cooperate with Russian cyber/info ops during 2016 campaign ("exclusive" leak of Colin Powell's personal email)

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Daily Caller goes full Kremlin & publishes op-ed by Oleg Deripaska, Russian oligarch w/ close (Original Post) MelissaB Mar 2018 OP

Kicking my own thread. MelissaB Mar 2018 #1

From Evan McMullan MelissaB Mar 2018 #2

K&R Qutzupalotl Mar 2018 #3

K&R Docreed2003 Mar 2018 #4

MelissaB

(16,420 posts)

1. Kicking my own thread.

Reply to MelissaB (Original post)

Thu Mar 8, 2018, 07:01 PM

Mar 2018

MelissaB

(16,420 posts)

2. From Evan McMullan

Reply to MelissaB (Original post)

Thu Mar 8, 2018, 07:11 PM

Mar 2018

In another moment when it’s clear just how corrupted elements of the right have become, the right-wing publication Daily Caller publishes an op-ed by Putin crony Oleg Deripaska who pushes anti-American conspiracy theories.