An indictment alleges a media company linked to six conservative influencers — including Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson — was secretly funded by Russian state media employees.
They absolutely knew. There’s a note about them googling “time in Moscow” when their contact wasn’t replying, to see when they’d wake up and come back to work.
I’m sure 99+% of them knew, but I’m not ruling out someone waking up to: “what? But the company that was paying me millions to convince people that Ukraine was the enemy was based in Illinois! There’s no way they they were Russian”. Every time I underestimate the stupidity of people they tend to surprise me, so I no longer do.
The idea that doing something with someone who turns out to be a foreign asset makes you a conspirator is a bit ridiculous. I don’t see anyone in this community accusing Kathy Hochul of being a Chinese asset since she’s a Democrat, but accusing her of that would be ridiculous too. She probably didn’t know that her aide was a Chinese agent.
I mean, Kathy Hochul was clearly not unwitting in her money laundering… so if your comparison is to say these right-wing influencers were completely aware of their Russian ties and were not duped at all, I am down with that.
God i hate popular media - always trying to change the narrative with these misleading headlines.
Being a paid russian asset isn’t being duped. I hope those things rot in prison.
Duped. Yes, of course. That’s it. 😏
To be fair. I don’t think it’s impossible that some of these were so stupid to even realize that the ones paying them were Russian.
They absolutely knew. There’s a note about them googling “time in Moscow” when their contact wasn’t replying, to see when they’d wake up and come back to work.
I’m sure 99+% of them knew, but I’m not ruling out someone waking up to: “what? But the company that was paying me millions to convince people that Ukraine was the enemy was based in Illinois! There’s no way they they were Russian”. Every time I underestimate the stupidity of people they tend to surprise me, so I no longer do.
They haven’t been charged.
The idea that doing something with someone who turns out to be a foreign asset makes you a conspirator is a bit ridiculous. I don’t see anyone in this community accusing Kathy Hochul of being a Chinese asset since she’s a Democrat, but accusing her of that would be ridiculous too. She probably didn’t know that her aide was a Chinese agent.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6281zgjjneo
I mean, Kathy Hochul was clearly not unwitting in her money laundering… so if your comparison is to say these right-wing influencers were completely aware of their Russian ties and were not duped at all, I am down with that.