Posted on 04/23/2019 10:01:26 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner on Tuesday asserted that the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election have been more damaging to U.S. politics than the interference efforts themselves, which he downplayed as "a couple of Facebook ads."
"Quite frankly the whole thing is just a big distraction for the country," Kushner said at the 2019 TIME 100 Summit.
"And you look at what Russia did, you know, buying some Facebook ads to try sow dissent and do it, and it’s a terrible thing," he continued. "But I think the investigations and all the speculation that’s happened for the last two years has had a much harsher impact on our democracy than a couple of Facebook ads."
"If you look at the magnitude of what they did and what they accomplished, I think the ensuing investigations have been way more harmful to our country," he added.
The interview marked Kushner's first public interview since the release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's full report on his nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference. The report did not establish that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government.
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Well the probes are real, the election interference ... still waiting to see something credible on that.
The headline is a LIE. Imagine that. The Hill (liberal hacks) are lying.
I fear what the domestic RAT party will do next year, as far as rigging the 2020 election, much more than anything Russia might perpetrate!!
Ballot harvesting must be thwarted by any means necessary or our treasured Republic will be flushed down the sewer forever!
2020 is probably the last time they will need to cheat, and they will. The demographics will have Texas and Florida blue by 2024, 2028 at the latest. Then turn out the lights, the party’s over.
Our media....owned by the Dems....did more harm. Week after week....Trump was castigated....and for absolutely no reason. The Dems made it all personal....because they didn’t have any kind of a format for the working class.
Leftists seek to destroy all worthwhile institutions to gain power.
Now is the time to expose fully the democrat party’s attempts to subvert US elections.
Absolutely, because the probes gave Dems control of the House in the midterms.
We should hold other nations to our strict national policy of non-interference in elections abroad....(snicker).
I don’t even think the interference happened. All you have is the word of he intel community that has never been honest with America even once. But putting that aside, how can anyone in DC get indignant about Russian trying to interfere in our elections without bursting into flames of hypocrisy?
I agree with you. I say the same thing to people and they look at me as if the US has never had anything to say about an election outside of the this country.
I mean, we send Jimmah Carter to view elections. We are “good.” //sarcasm
LOL, they look at you utterly mystified.
But putting that aside, how can anyone in DC get indignant about Russian trying to interfere in our elections without bursting into flames of hypocrisy?
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Amen....Try ‘explaining’ that to most of the idiots.
Almost as bad as ‘Those nasty Russians/Chinese/??? are putting up a base in Cuba/Venezuela/????-HOW DARE THEY?’.
Well, maybe if we didn’t have bases in Turkey, Germany, etc etc, ‘they’ wouldn’t feel the need to locate in our hemisphere.
When they start on immigration I give them the old...’What changes in history if the Indians had met the Mayflower with spears etal instead of ‘Turkey & Potatoes’.?’
Ask the Indians how that worked out for them....
$100,000 in Facebook ads. Compare to $79 million by the Trump campaign alone. Ridiculous.
Meanwhile Andrew Weissman, Mueller's pet snake, named a dozen "Russian companies" in his report, some of whom do not exist, alleging dozens of "crimes" they knew could never be proven, to give fodder to the media and House Democrats for impeachment.
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