35/50 Throughout 2016, Russian journalists were instructed to portray Mr. Trump positively and Hillary Clinton negatively (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 218).
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44/50 After Mr. Trump's victory, the leading man of the Russian media, Dmitry Kiselev, celebrated the end of human rights and democracy as US policy (
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45/50 In May '17 Mr Trump fired James Comey for taking part in an investigation of Russia's cyberwar against the U.S., then bragged about doing so to Russian officials in the Oval Office. At that meeting he acknowledged Russia’s help in getting him elected (#RoadToUnfreedom p245)
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46/50 In June 2017, Mr. Putin essentially admitted that Russia had intervened in the election, saying that he had never denied that "Russian volunteers" had carried out a cyberwar on behalf of Mr. Trump (
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47/50 In June 2017, Mr. Trump ordered the firing of Robert Mueller, who had been tasked to carry out an investigation of Russian interference. The White House Counsel refused to carry out the order. Russia then began a campaign to slander Mr. Mueller (
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48/50 In September 2017, a Russian parliamentarian said on national television that the American security services "slept through" as Russia chose the US president (
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