{"id":1354525,"date":"2022-03-02T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354525"},"modified":"2022-03-02T08:25:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:25:05","slug":"american-communist-aiding-russia-in-ukraine-presented-as-republican-trump-supporter-by-liberal-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-communist-aiding-russia-in-ukraine-presented-as-republican-trump-supporter-by-liberal-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"American Communist Aiding Russia in Ukraine Presented as \u201cRepublican Trump Supporter\u201d by Liberal Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerican-communist-aiding-russia-in-ukraine-presented-as-republican-trump-supporter-by-liberal-hacks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sdsda-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>On Tuesday, the Democrat super political action committee was revealed to have tweeted lies about a man, who is originally from Texas, that has been in Russia fighting alongside Russia forces in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Medias Touch retweeted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PejddkCDqjM&#038;ab_channel=RussellBentley\">video<\/a> that shows Russell &#8220;Texas&#8221; Bentley III speaking &#8220;on the frontlines&#8221; of the war between the two nations. They falsely labeled him a &#8220;Republican from Texas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">[embedded content]<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Political operative group for democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeidasTouch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@meidastouch<\/a>, spread disinfo that a Texas Republican went to fight for Russians in Ukraine. The false claim went viral. Russel Bentley is an avowed communist who raised money on GoFundMe in 2014 to go fight \u201cneo-Nazis\u201d on behalf of Russia. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s9jBuXKwO4\">pic.twitter.com\/s9jBuXKwO4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Ng\u00f4 ???? (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1498684516377972737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Bentley said that he is there with the &#8220;de-nazifiers and liberators of Ukraine&#8221; with what appears to be Russian soldiers and tanks in the background.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;These guys are tough, these guys are ready, and there\u2019s plenty of &#8217;em,&#8221; Bentley continued. &#8220;So far, Russia has used about 10 percent of its military power, and we\u2019re getting ready to bring the hammer down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;These guys are going to save and liberate all the good people in Ukraine, and the bad people, boom, kick their a**,&#8221; Bentley continued, making the motion of kicking someone.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>This video was posted to Bentley\u2019s YouTube channel on February 28.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Medias Touch retweeted the video from <em>Independent<\/em> international correspondent Borzoi Daragahi, who had written: &#8220;Just a good ol\u2019 boy apparently embedded with Russian forces in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Medias Touch wrote: &#8220;Here\u2019s a Republican from Texas fighting alongside the Russians and filming propaganda videos for them. This is treason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>This tweet appears to have since been deleted from the Medias Touch account. The post appears on an <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220301012224\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeidasTouch\">archived link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>In 2018, the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/articles\/son-wealthy-businessman-foot-soldier-vladimir-putin-russia-hacking\/\">Texas Monthly<\/a><\/em> profiled Bentley for their magazine, highlighting how Bentley was drawn into fighting for the Russians and revealing his communist beliefs.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Bentley traveled to Russia in December of 2014, nearly a year after the country had annexed Crimea.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Before, Bentley had held a number of roles in the US, including being an Army engineer, a marijuana legalization activist, a drug trafficker, and in 1992, Bentley ran for the US House of Representatives in Minnesota as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.fi\/books?id=Ly9IAQAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PA72&#038;lpg=PA72&#038;dq=russell+bentley+%22grassroots%22+party&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=ioCut2WeoF&#038;sig=ACfU3U0JAXd-1V18JCt9T22TzT7ICrWLdw&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwjWk5-joaX2AhUNy4sKHQk8BpcQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&#038;q=russell%20bentley%20%22grassroots%22%20party&#038;f=false\">grassroots<\/a>&#8221; nominee.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>When he first arrived in Donetsk, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, he reportedly settled into a unit called Sut\u2019 Vremeni, or &#8220;Essence of Time,&#8221; a Stalinist communist movement, according to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/articles\/son-wealthy-businessman-foot-soldier-vladimir-putin-russia-hacking\/\">Texas Monthly<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>In June of 2015, his unit was transferred to a special forces battalion, and with his age, Bentley would not be suited for his new role.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Instead, Bentley became what he calls an &#8220;information warrior,&#8221; creating English-spoken media from the Russian lines.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to do information war\u2014information defense\u2014against the propaganda that the Western media has launched against the people of Donbass and the people that defend Donbass,&#8221; Bentley explained to local and online listeners of his FM radio Show. \u201cWe are going to bring the truth to you live from here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Months later though, he was kicked off the show due to disputes over pay, and started his YouTube channel, where the video tweeted by Midas touch appears.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>In an in-person interview with Bentley at the Kalininsky 4\/4 memorial with a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/articles\/son-wealthy-businessman-foot-soldier-vladimir-putin-russia-hacking\/\">Texas Monthly<\/a><\/em> reporter, Bentley equated the horrors of the site, which served as grounds for Nazis and their collaborators disposed of bodies, to the actions of Ukraine and its allies.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;The Nazis brought people here every day\u2014dead bodies, but also live people\u2014and just threw them down this shaft,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;When you murder a whole family by throwing them down a hole, do you throw the parents or the kids in first? That\u2019s what we\u2019re fighting here. That\u2019s the kind of monsters we\u2019re fighting with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Speaking with the reporter about his upbringing, he said that his political beliefs were further strengthened during a trip to Cuba in which he had dinner with a captain in the Cuban army. Bentley said that he had long considered himself a socialist.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Well, I\u2019m a communist,&#8221; she replied.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;What\u2019s the difference?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;A communist is someone who is willing to fight for socialism,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Bentley then said, &#8220;Then I\u2019m a communist too. I\u2019m willing to fight for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Bentley, I discovered, \u00a0is a new kind of soldier in the information war, a freelancer who has garnered a loyal following precisely because he claims to be independent from state or corporate control. In truth, of course, he often echoes the talking points spun out by Russian news sources. And in that respect, he is part of an emerging crop of self-styled information warriors loyal to authoritarian regimes,&#8221; the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/articles\/son-wealthy-businessman-foot-soldier-vladimir-putin-russia-hacking\/\">Texas Monthly<\/a><\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>On his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russelltexasbentley.com\/p\/about.html\">website<\/a>, Bentley claims that &#8220;I am now doing Information Warfare for the Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic. The war in Donbass is only one Front in a global war. Fascism has again raised its ugly head, and we are here to fight and defeat it. Truth is one of our most powerful weapons, and my job is to get the truth to the people of the Western world. But I need your help,&#8221; urging for financial donations to his cause.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\"><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the Democrat super political action committee was revealed to have tweeted lies about a man, who is originally from Texas, that has been in Russia fighting alongside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}