{"id":2227893,"date":"2024-04-23T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-and-russia-hoax-architect-warn-of-gop-disinformation-campaigns\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T07:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T11:51:49","slug":"hillary-clinton-and-russia-hoax-architect-warn-of-gop-disinformation-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-and-russia-hoax-architect-warn-of-gop-disinformation-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton and the mastermind behind the Russia hoax caution against GOP disinformation campaigns"},"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%2Fhillary-clinton-and-russia-hoax-architect-warn-of-gop-disinformation-campaigns%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=2227893&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--><p>Former\u200b presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently discussed election \u2064concerns with Marc Elias, a key figure in the Russia\u200c collusion hoax. They highlighted GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libs-emily-wilder-and-nikole-hannah-jones-were-victims-of-conservative-disinformation-campaign\/\" title=\"Libs: Emily Wilder and Nikole Hannah-Jones Were Victims of Conservative \u2018Disinformation Campaign\u2019\">disinformation campaigns<\/a> impacting the election. Clinton praised Democratic \u2063oversight in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/update-corrupted-software-that-stole-6000-votes-from-trump-in-michigan-county-shut-down-for-two-hours-in-red-counties-in-georgia-on-election-day\/\" title=\"Update: Corrupted Software that Stole 6,000 Votes From Trump in Michigan County -- Shut Down for TWO HOURS in Red Counties in Georgia on Election Day\">swing states<\/a> like Wisconsin and criticized Republican\u200c tactics. Elias, linked to the Steele dossier scandal, emphasized the deceptive strategies used \u2064against Clinton.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton just did an interview with Marc Elias, a top Democrat operative <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/how-top-democrat-lawyer-caused-both-left-and-right-lose-faith-us\">who helped construct<\/a> the Russia collusion hoax. They warn of Republicans waging a \u201cdisinformation campaign\u201d to influence the election \u2014 eight years after the duo ran the disinformation campaign of the century. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"eCxL5rlfaRBgYkd\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I had the pleasure of interviewing Hillary Clinton about Donald Trump, the 2024 election and the fight for democracy!<\/p>\n<p>I promise you will learn and enjoy.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/us34mN581M\">https:\/\/t.co\/us34mN581M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marceelias\/status\/1782063442662129878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In the interview, Clinton also praised Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp for fighting President Trump\u2019s attempt to locate illegal votes in the 2020 contest, continued to insist the 2016 election was stolen, and said Democrats shouldn\u2019t trust any election systems that aren\u2019t run by Democrats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1101722112\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-49dfa2a38753e05806c6a756e061ef70 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-49dfa2a38753e05806c6a756e061ef70\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s \u201cgood news\u201d that Democrats are running or in key positions overseeing the election systems in crucial swing states Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, North Carolina, and Nevada, Clinton and Elias agreed. Because of this, Clinton said, \u201cI think you\u2019ll get fair results, and we have to accept those results because Democrats are basically trying to call the shots. That\u2019s not the case in Georgia, but the governor there rose to the occasion in 2020 and let\u2019s hope that he does again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton, whom Elias calls a \u201ctrue American hero\u201d although she left four American heroes to die in Benghazi, also claimed Republicans were trying to \u201cpurge\u201d the electorate and \u201cmake it difficult\u201d for people to vote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably can\u2019t even imagine what they\u2019re going to do with artificial intelligence and other cyber attacks on voters in terms of the messages that they will get, sometimes deliberately, to confuse them. You know, different polling places, different days to vote, different times of voting \u2014 I mean, whatever they can do to mess people up,\u201d Clinton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already had an example of that in the Democratic primary with, you know, somebody doing a phony robocall from President Biden telling them, you know, not to vote on a certain day,\u201d Clinton claimed. \u201cSo I think they\u2019re going to dramatically increase their confusion operation in terms of, aimed at voters to get them you know, somewhat discouraged by the complexity of voting, or they\u2019re not knowing what they should do.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b461a97eb888a31ddb0e279cf285f5e4 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b461a97eb888a31ddb0e279cf285f5e4\"><\/div>\n<p>Clinton failed to mention the man behind the fake robocall is a longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/democratic-operative-admits-commissioning-fake-biden-robocall-used-ai-rcna140402\">Democrat operative<\/a> who says he did it as an act of \u201ccivil disobedience\u201d to call attention to the electoral dangers of AI manipulation. Clinton is right that internet election interference happens \u2014 except Democrats aren\u2019t the only victims. <\/p>\n<p>For example, Apple\u2019s \u201cSiri\u201d digital assistant told voters that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/07\/siri-tells-wisconsinites-the-republican-primary-is-april-3-thats-a-day-after-its-set-to-take-place\/\">Wisconsin\u2019s Republican<\/a> presidential primary would take place on April 3 \u2014 one day after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/siri-tells-wisconsinites-the-republican-primary-is-april-3-thats-a-day-after-its-set-to-take-place\/\" title=\"Siri Tells Wisconsinites The Republican Primary Is April 3. That\u2019s A Day After It\u2019s Set To Take Place\">actual primary<\/a>. Users were correctly told the Democratic presidential primary was on April 2. The issue appeared to be fixed before the primary date. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to be very effective in their disinformation campaigns and, you know, they were good, they were good against me and they\u2019re still repeating the lies they told about me in 2016 to rev up their base, you know?\u201d Clinton continued, unironically. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s Pizza Gate or, you know, all these other crazy, you know, things they said. So I think there\u2019s going to be a three-prong strategy to shrink the electorate, make it difficult to vote, confuse people about voting \u2014 make it hard for them to understand what they\u2019re supposed to do, discredit mail-in votes all of that \u2014 and then just flat-out disinformation,\u201d Clinton speculated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d736ac246db36540ef50aeae67a4c755 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d736ac246db36540ef50aeae67a4c755\"><\/div>\n<p>Elias echoed these claims later in the interview, saying Republicans use mis- and disinformation before repeating the false claim that Clinton was \u201ccheated\u201d out of the presidency due to Russian interference. To allege that a candidate with high negatives and one of the worst political messages in history \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m With Her\u201d \u2014 was \u201ccheated\u201d out of an election without mentioning the massive \u201ccheating\u201d by that same candidate takes a Clinton-level willingness to lie. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/31\/if-no-one-is-above-the-law-democrats-and-their-partisan-pawns-would-be-arraigned-not-trump\/\">Elias<\/a> served as Clinton\u2019s top lawyer in 2016. He has been <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/14\/federal-court-wont-back-down-after-sanctioning-russia-hoax-lawyer-marc-elias-for-deceiving-judges\/\">sanctioned <\/a>by judges for lying in court. It\u2019s he who commissioned the discredited Steele dossier that the Clinton camp funded, likely using actual Russian disinformation, to create false allegations the Russians were helping former President Donald Trump. Later-uncovered U.S. intelligence information <a href=\"https:\/\/public.substack.com\/p\/cia-cooked-the-intelligence-to-hide\">indicated <\/a>that Russia actually preferred Clinton to win in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Elias hired Fusion GPS to get dirt on Trump. Fusion GPS then used funding from the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee to hire former British spy Christopher Steele. Steele put his name on the so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/12\/even-after-offering-1m-fbi-never-got-corroboration-of-russia-dossier-they-used-to-spy-on-trump\/\">Steele Dossier<\/a>\u201d containing the uncorroborated allegations against Trump and disseminated it to reporters and U.S. spy agencies. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-offered-to-pay-steele-1m-for-anti-trump-evidence-paid-possible-russian-spy-despite-knowing-his-info-was-bad\/\" title=\"FBI offered M to Steele for anti-Trump evidence, paid Russian spy despite bad info.\">dossier relied<\/a> on information from Igor Danchenko, who was later <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump\/\">indicted<\/a> for lying to the FBI and whom a special counsel investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/russia-and-ukraine-scandals\/new-durham-bombshell-fbi-paid-russian-accused-lying\">showed <\/a>was tied to Russian intelligence. Danchenko, as The Federalist\u2019s Margot Cleveland noted in a detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump\/\">breakdown<\/a> of the Russia-collusion hoax, \u201cfed Steele false information about the Trump campaign, which a Clinton booster had invented and then passed on to Danchenko.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/01\/18\/this-defense-of-fbis-handling-of-the-steele-dossier-is-one-of-the-weakest-yet\/\">FBI<\/a> then began illegally spying on the Trump campaign on behalf of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-manages-to-trigger-leftists-by-doing-something-millions-of-americans-do-every-year\/\" title=\"Ted Cruz Manages To Trigger Leftists by Doing Something Millions of Americans Do Every Year\">political opponents<\/a> using the \u201cuncorroborated evidence\u201d provided by a likely Russian asset, in what became known as \u201cCrossfire Hurricane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Special Counsel Robert Mueller later found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/03\/24\/breaking-news-barr-to-release-summary-of-mueller-report-1233771\">no evidence<\/a> that the Trump campaign had conspired with Russian operatives. Special counsel John Durham later released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/storage\/durhamreport.pdf\">report<\/a> vindicating Trump and others who insisted the FBI acted improperly in its investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Mueller and Durham\u2019s reports were blistering indictments of corporate media and their willingness to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/the-story-behind-a-retracted-cnn-report-on-the-trump-campaign-and-russia\/2017\/08\/17\/af03cd60-82d6-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html\">push<\/a> election-affecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2017\/12\/10\/adam-schiff-russian-collusion-damning-sot-sotu.cnn\">political hoaxes<\/a> without independent evidence. The New York Times and Washington Post won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2022\/07\/18\/pulitzer-reject-trump-russia-stories-challenge\/\">Pulitzer Prizes<\/a> for their false reporting furthering the Russian collusion propaganda operation that also led to Trump\u2019s impeachment and hamstrung Republican control of Congress and the presidency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d4df5711a45a4770a23cd47d7abcf047 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d4df5711a45a4770a23cd47d7abcf047\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton, a former presidential candidate, recently interviewed with Marc Elias, a prominent Democratic strategist involved in the Russia collusion hoax. They highlight concerns about GOP disinformation tactics in the upcoming election. 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