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FACT CHECK: Has The US Interfered In Foreign Elections?
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday that the U.S. has, like Russia, tried to influence many foreign elections.
Verdict: True
The U.S. attempted to influence over 80 foreign elections from 1946 to 2000, sometimes secretly.
Fact Check:
Paul mentioned the U.S.’s history of attempting to influence other elections in advance of President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday in Helsinki, Finland. News outlets asked Trump whether he would hold Putin accountable for Russian meddling in the 2016 election by asking him to hand indicted Russians over to the U.S.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office recently obtained indictments against 12 Russians accused of stealing emails from Democrats and releasing them to the public. An additional 13 Russians suspected of posing as Americans to organize pro-Trump rallies and paying for political advertisements on social media were indicted in February.
“I think really we mistake our response if we think it’s about accountability from the Russians,” Paul said on CNN’s “State Of The Union.” “They are another country. They are going to spy on us. They do spy on us. They are going to interfere in our elections. We also do the same.”
Loch K. Johnson, a professor at the University of Georgia who began his career investigating the CIA as a Senate committee staffer in the 1970s, told The New York Times that the U.S. has certainly tried to influence foreign elections.
“We’ve been doing this kind of thing since the CIA was created in 1947,” Johnson said. “We’ve used posters, pamphlets, mailers, banners — you name it. We’ve planted false information in foreign newspapers. We’ve used what the British call ‘King George’s cavalry’: suitcases of cash.” There’s More
Well now ain’t that one hell of a surprise!1
“Gambling here”? I’m shocked! / Casablanca.
Political interference is only news to an ill informed News Media. Then they just pretend to be “shocked.”
Phucken fakes.
Not only did the U.S. interfere with elections, the U.S. interfered with election results, arranging for elected rulers to be deposed. The two most notable instances were in Iran in 1953 with the ouster of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and in Chile in 1973 with Augusto Pinochet’s coup deposing Salvador Allende.
The Iran action was ultimately a disaster, as the Shah’s internal security was so iron-fisted that he was overthrown by the ayatollahs. Gee, didn’t that turn out well?
We know that Obammer interfered in Israel’s and France’s elections in recent years.
OBTW: What legitimate country wouldn’t try to encourage other countries to have favorable government? Wasn’t WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Gulf War’s I and II, and Syria , etc. about changing governments. Even the Civil War?
This has only become an issue recently because the Russians are able to outdo the Democrats ability to manipulate US elections.
Paul is right when he talks about TDS.
https://youtu.be/hoyt9AyDdiw
Where is interference mentioned in the Constitution? Should the are soles who did so be punished? Not yes, but HELL YES!