This just in from NPR: Kremlin leaders are frustrated with the US's "hysteria" over their meddling in our elections.
"We aren't doing
much this year" and, "Of course we wanted Sanders over Biden, why wouldn't we?"
@PJ Diaz , I didn't quote them exactly, I paraphrased with a mocking but accurate depiction of what they said in this audio article from NPR:
The Kremlin says warnings of Russian interference in November's presidential election are just "American paranoia." Some analysts say there's little the Russians could do in any case.
www.npr.org
Accurate quotes:
"new accusations are causing frustration in the Kremlin"
"They know full well they are meddling in politics, at the same time they are frustrated that they are being cast as the ultimate Bond villain"
"...Putin wants to make a deal with the US and Trump says he wants us to get along together. So the Kremlin believes the problem lies with the US establishment that opposes any deal with Russia and so that's why Moscow prefers anti-establishment insurgents such as Trump and more recently, Bernie Sanders"
"Russian interference is being exaggerated...if there is interference going on right now, it's minimal and likely to have little effect."
"So far the Kremlin seems to be taking a hands off approach and letting unofficial operatives meddle in the 2020 election".
So, yeah, I committed the crime of mockingly putting quotation marks around my own paraphrasing of words that cast the meaning of their statements rather than recite their propaganda. Yeah, I cast their statements in a way that looks bad. And, yeah, I accurately portrayed them as Bernie's backers. People who use statements to conceal rather than reveal don't like the way I post.
eff em.