RUSSIA PICKED DONALD TRUMP AND RAN HIM FOR PRESIDENT, FORMER ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE OFFICER SAYS

[RAB910]

Source: Newsweek

Russia chose Donald Trump as the U.S. presidential candidate who would be most advantageous to Moscow, and used online tactics to win him the presidency, according to a former agent of the Israeli intelligence agency the Mossad.

"Officials in Moscow looked at the 2016 U.S. presidential race and asked, ‘Which candidate would we like to have sitting in the White House? Who will help us achieve our goals?’ And they chose him. From that moment, they deployed a system [of bots] for the length of the elections, and ran him for president,” former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo told the audience at the Marker’s digital conference in Israel on Monday, where experts gathered to discuss online disinformation campaigns and bots.

“What we’ve seen so far with respect to bots and the distortion of information is just the tip of the iceberg. It is the greatest threat of recent years, and it threatens the basic values that we share—democracy and the world order created since World War Two,” Pardo noted, according to Haaretz.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-picked-donald-trump-and-ran-him-president-former-israeli-intelligence-1273009

[SunSeeker]

1. Yes, we know. Bibi knew too. nt

[sandensea]

4. Knew, approved, and joined the effort.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-trump-team-met-with-group-including-israeli-that-offered-election-help/

[BigmanPigman]

16. Ditto!

[DemocracyMouse]

25. Shouldn't that be retitled with: "...Intelligence Chief"?

[salin]

2. Donnie is having a really, really bad news day.

Probably assumed he would get rave reviews from his trip to see troops, but gets roasted by several Fox hosts for disrespect - and invited to remove all us troops in Iraq due to Donnie's disrespecting the host country and it's leader. And it keeps going down hill with each passing hour.

Am guessing he has lost or will lose a small percentage of his base across this week. Enough big jolts to open some eyes of those who were already growing increasingly uncomfortable with him.

[calimary]

8. Not nearly as bad a news day as he deserves.

[salin]

11. True.

[Jim__]

3. "... former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo told the audience at the Marker's digital conference ..."

Does Mossad chief mean the head of Israeli intelligence? I would think that the word of the head of intelligence carries more weight than just an intelligence officer.

[BBG]

5. Former Head

2011-2016

[Haggis for Breakfast]

36. If the (former head of) Mossad said ANYTHING

It is interesting, because usually you need a crowbar to pry information out of these people.

The Mossad is very very good at what they do. And, they do NOT like to tip their hands even when the intel is out there. So, if this man is talking, people need to listen.

[SergeStorms]

40. While dirtbag Donnie...

shares Israeli intelligence info with his best friends, the Russians, in a closed door meeting in the Oval Office attended by two Russians and Trump. That is never, ever done by real Presidents of the United States. He could have given them our nuclear launch codes for all we know! Gee, I wonder why dirtbag Donnie never wants any other Americans in the room with him when he converses with his best buds, the Russians? Seems sort of fishy to me.

[Enoki33]

44. That moment was the final clincher for me. The added insult of the

Russians mocking our journalists publicly on property owned by the American people has never been far from me. Especially whenever l see the image of the traitor they bought and paid for.

[Loubee]

6. Just thinking about what this reveals about much of the US electorate...

makes me sick to my stomach (a feeling I've had most of the last 3 years).

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Deplorables. Hillary called it right.

[onit2day]

12. Remember, the voters did not elect Trump. It was the electoral college

[groundloop]

20. Absolutely.... and the margin in the 3 states that that tipped it was 77,744 votes

Hillary, as we all know, won the election by over 3 MILLION votes. Yet a razor thin margin of 77,744 votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania tipped the electoral college for Tiny. Between Russian meddling, repub voter suppression tactics, and Comey's last minute fake revelation we got fucked.

[Progressive Jones]

22. True, but without the treasonous Trump voters... nt

[Baltimike]

49. I think it shows a vulnerable US electorate as their voice was stolen by Russia

in coordination with the kGOPb.

The will of the people was not followed.

[SHRED]

7. This is news?

[dalton99a]

14. +1

[flibbitygiblets]

15. I think it's newsworthy that this has been confirmed by a former agent of Israeli intelligence

of course most of us already know this happened. The confirmations are important.

What I want to know is, why did this intelligence officer not speak publicly until now?

[Lock him up.]

10. Puppetmaster Vladimir said it in Helsinki Live on TV

When The World Was Watching

Lock Him Up!

[Baltimike]

13. They rigged the primary and then they rigged the general election. Truth will out. nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. Of course. Anyone surprised?

[ucrdem]

18. Buyers remorse?

Seems a lot of folks thought they owned the last election after spending considerable sums buying it.

[karin_sj]

19. The last sentence is infuriating

"It is unclear, however, whether these efforts succeeded in swaying voters."

It's just ridiculous when reporters, pundits, and others keep saying, "We don't know if this affected the outcome of the election." OF COURSE IT DID!! And the Russians were probably able to hack into the software as well.

[red dog 1]

24. + 1

[FailureToCommunicate]

21. Well, Pardo sure knows what he is talking about.

[Cha]

23. Of course russia did.. and there were plenty

of enabling suckers to help the asshole get rigged in.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. We have to accept one third of America will gladly choose putin over democrats.

To the point if putin says we have to all be deported, imprisoned, shot, etc...

[Cha]

29. Thankfully it's Not the majority.

[Eliot Rosewater]

31. I know, but it so infuriates me there is this many. ALL Of them are the

personal responsibility crowd, too. Proving that is the LAST thing they actually do or really care about.

[TimeToGo]

26. Not shocking

But, hope to get it out there where the people see

[red dog 1]

27. I wonder if Tamir Pardo is related to Don Pardo, the legendary radio & TV announcer

who was the announcer for NBC's "Saturday Night Live," a job he held for 39 seasons.

(Just wondering)

[Grasswire2]

30. Gee, are people beginning to catch up with Seth Abramson?

Still much more for MSM to learn.

[dewsgirl]

52. +10000!

[NotAPuppet]

32. There has never been any doubt in my mind

that Putin installed Trump, and I’m not afraid to say that I don’t believe that 77K legitimate votes decided the 2016 election.

Republicans and even some Democrats like to point out that HRC was “a bad candidate” who ran a “bad campaign”, and that’s why we lost. Nobody wants to remember the fact that Trump beat Huckabee, Fiorina, Kasich, Carson, Cruz, Paul, Santorum, Christie, and Rubio before he “won” the 2016 election. So, they were ALL bad candidates?

This makes absolutely no sense, and the only logical explanation is that Putin chose and installed Trump. I really hope that we will live long enough to find out what really happened in 2016.

[calimary]

55. Welcome to DU, NotAPuppet!

I've felt this, too. All along. Putin found himself a REALLY useful idiot. But one other thing here is false. Hillary was NOT a "bad candidate." AND we DIDN'T lose. Anybody who gets three million more votes than the opponent did - HAS won, AND IMO has won legitimate bragging rights on the popular vote.

[McCamy Taylor]

33. Russian agents in US were behind Citizens United, too.

I posted the links a while back.

[Chemisse]

34. Allowing elections to be bought.

When will that stinky albatross be overturned?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

38. Can you post that link again, please.

I didn't see it. But I'd like to. If you don't mind. Thanks.

[dchill]

35. No shit.

[Hugin]

37. +1

[bitterross]

39. The story is misleading. It puts interference as too recent.

This story is planted by people who want to change the narrative. It clearly tries to make it look like Putin/Russia only decided to interfere with the US government and elections at a RECENT time. It seeks to quell the fact Trump has been the unwitting or witting tool of Russia for far, far longer. To dispel the notion Putin plays the long-game.

[roscoeroscoe]

42. Good point

This goes way back

[Raster]

46. This goes way, way back...

...possibly even as far as two decades, or so ago.

[Achilleaze]

41. ...and republicans submissively colluded to let it happen

to the everlasting shame of the republican party

[FiveGoodMen]

43. "to the everlasting shame of the republican party"

They have no shame.

They just blame someone else.

Since they don't care about objective reality, that's all they need.

I say this because, we keep hoping they'll have a come-to-reality moment. But I don't think they ever will.

[Baltimike]

45. The Pope is Catholic. :) nt

[BlueJac]

47. k&R

[Baltimike]

48. we are at war, whether we like it or not, and they've committed treason. nt

[delisen]

51. Exactly

[olddad56]

50. This is just shocking. (not)

[at140]

53. Gas was near $2 today in NE Florida!

Why is USA producing so much oil and depressing the price of oil?
I thought Russia likes higher oil prices?

[calimary]

54. And btw, Welcome to DU, RAB910!