How Much Money Did Russia Give To The Democratic On The 2016 Election

Last May, I observed that QAnon had far more evident success in getting its adherents in places to obstruct the vote certification on January half dozen, 2021 than the organized militias did.

QAnon managed to get far more of their adherents to the Senate floor than either the Proud Boys (Joe Biggs and Arthur Jackman showed up after getting in with the help of people inside) or the Oath Keepers (Kelly Meggs and Joshua James showed upwards also tardily). QAnon held a prayer on the dais while the militias were still breaching doors.

While he didn't make it to the Senate floor, that'southward true, in part, because of the fervor with which QAnoner Doug Jensen sprinted up the stairs later Officeholder Eugene Goodman (though Jensen's fervor was also one of the things that Goodman exploited to buy fourth dimension to evacuate the Senate).

Co-ordinate to an FBI interview Jensen did just days afterward the insurrection (the transcript was released as office of a suppression movement that is unlikely to work), that was his stated intent.

He wanted QAnon to get credit for breaching the Capitol.

I wanted Q to get the attention.

Q. I come across.

A. And that was my main intention basically —

Q. Um-hum.

A. — was to use my shirt. I basically intended on being the affiche boy, and it really worked out.

The transcript is a tough read. It reveals (equally the court filings associated with many of the January six defendants do) the urgency with which the Usa needs to address mental health treatment. It reveals how Trump'due south propagandists won the fidelity of a blueish collar marriage member who had previously voted Democratic.

Just near vividly, it reveals how Jensen got radicalized into QAnon. And that started — as he repeatedly describes — from the files stolen from John Podesta released by WikiLeaks in advance of the 2016 election. He planned to vote for Hillary (!!!) until he came to believe the misrepresentations he read (pushed, in meaning office, by accused Proud Boy leader Joe Biggs) of the Podesta files. When the menses of Podesta files ended, Jensen was left with a void, which Q drops filled shortly thereafter. After that, Jensen came to believe Trump's lies that he had been shafted past the Deep State, by some guy (Peter Strzok) and his girlfriend whose proper noun he couldn't remember. Maybe as a result, Jensen came to believe of Putin that, "this guy don't seem so bad, you know."

Likewise, Q said — Q has said things, okay, then like — and anonymous, okay. I follow that, Mayjan (ph.) and all that stuff, you know, because basically I was not into politics until the Wiki leaks dropped, and so when I realized nigh Republic of haiti, and the Clinton Foundation, and the kidnappings all through the Clinton Foundation, and and then I learned near Epstein Island and and so I learned Mike Pence owns an island, right — or non Mike Pence, Joe Biden owns an island next door, and so I find that Hunter Biden and Bris Moldings (ph.) and all that, I knew about that a year or two agone.

[snip]

It all started with all the crap I found out almost Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, yous know, all of that stuff, and so so right before I was going to vote for Hillary, I was like, whoa, we've got to vote Trump in because we can't have Hillary. And and then I showtime finding things like we were supposed to be dead past now, and if Hillary would have won, we were going to be attacked past North Korea or Iran. Nosotros were going to go to state of war, and nosotros would about probable — half of us wouldn't be here right now if Trump wouldn't have won that election is what I got from information technology.

[snip]

You guys have an FBI thing that you lot released all that Ben Swan who was on ABC years ago and he tried to expose pizza gate and he got fired that nighttime from ABC, and he works for RT now.

[snip]

I am for America, and I feel like we are beingness taken over by communist Red china, you know, and the whole Russian bunco was fake. I don't know what the deal with Russian federation is, just I don't know, Vladimir Putin, he seems to be like a decent person, simply I could be crazy, you know. Merely I think we were taught from a immature age to hate Russia and all of this stuff. I've researched on Vladimir Putin. I was like this guy don't seem so bad, you know, but I don't know, you know.

[snip]

A. And all this information, and Trump's taking downwards all these people, you lot know? And — well, firing them or whatsoever, you know? Like Brennan, Clapper, yous know, that guy that I hate with his girlfriend, I can't remember their names. Those texting dorsum and forth. Simply they were all like top, you know, members, they're high up and stuff.

Q. Yep.

A. And you lot saw that they were out to destroy Trump, and they were members of our, you know, Central Intelligence or our FBI, you know?

[snip]

I did not preplan zippo. I am not a leader. I am just a hardcore patriot. I am a diehard — I believe all this stuff to be true, and I experience like Trump's but got the absolute shaft from everything effectually, our own government, the media.

[snip]

So I voted both terms for Obama, and during the presidency, I thought he was a great president. The health thing. The health thing didn't benefit me and my family because I had union health insurance. And so I got no benefits from it, but I was happy that all those people got insurance, y'all know? Then I was happy with him. So I was going to vote for Hillary because I've been a democrat my whole life.

Q. Yep.

A. And then the WikiLeaks affair happened and I had to start questioning where I was getting my info from. And that's when I realized, you know, holy cow, I can't vote for this woman. And then it became — like I started telling everybody I know about WikiLeaks and everything else back then. And and then that died off when Trump won. And so I didn't actually have anything. I was happy Trump won, you know? And and then all of a sudden Q drops started. And it was just — that's all I did —

Q. Yep.

A. — was follow those Q drops. [my accent]

This is a narrative of how an data operation started by Russia half dozen years agone continues to poison American politics, up to and including persuading Americans to affiliate with the architect of that information operation.

Subsequently that radicalization process — Jensen described to the FBI — he readily responded to the propagandists trying to help Trump steal an election: Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, and Rudy Giuliani, as well as the December 19, 2020 Trump tweet that arose out of their machinations. So he collection all night from Iowa to answer Trump's call.

Q. How'd you detect out about the rally?

A. Well, I found out from the rally from all the different people I follow.

Q. I see.

A. Which — so like — I'yard non saying it's JFK, Jr., merely i of the people I follow on Twitter, his name'southward John F. Kennedy, Jr., and so Linwood. Linwood's new. Similar everything Linwood has dropped in the last couple weeks is former news, similar that'south all former new to me, and so Linwood got me fired upwardly, Sidney Powell got me fired up. Rudy Giuliani got me fired up, you know, and then I become to this Trump rally and I was only hoping it was show time basically, so he gets washed with this rally and I'm just kind of similar — he's like, oh, let'south all go march down peacefully, you know. He didn't tell u.s.a. to go storm the edifice, okay.

[snip]

A. Trump'south posts. Trump posted make sure you're there, January 6 for the rally in Washington, D.C., I'll have some nifty info, and so that to me was, oh, here information technology comes, because — and then, you know, all he said, well, where'south Hillary? Well, where? I already know that. Q said where'due south Hillary iv months agone, you lot know, so I was kind of similar that's all you got, where'south Hillary? You know, he — and then he got usa all fired up to become to that White Firm, and so it just all happened so quick and I just wanted to make certain that I wanted to be in the forepart. Basically I wanted to become that Q shirt the attention —

Q. Right.

A. — is what my goal was. [my emphasis]

There are few improve summaries of the damage done by the sustained data operations that both Russia and Trump pursued — with the Burisma attacks, at to the lowest degree, provably in coordination — over the last six years. The self-described poster boy for the insurrection got at that place as a issue of a sustained serial of information operations that started with Russia's attempt to tamper in the 2016 election.

Simply, Doug Jensen makes information technology articulate: Russian didn't just tamper in the ballot. It tampered with the American psyche.

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