John Solomon at TheHill is trying to deflect back to Biden re: Shokin. 2 threads I've put together..

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Worked for the Sinclair Group too, at 'Circa', which was favoured by Russian twitter bots

Years ago John Solomon was either the lead or one of the lead politics reporters at AP. He had a well-earned reputation as the easiest mark in the business for GOP oppo research hits. It was actually a kind of running gag among Republican campaign operatives. No one will run with a story you’re trying to float? Bring it to John Solomon.
...
At the time, it was never clear to me whether this was more a matter of laziness or ideology. Subsequent events helped clarify things. Later Solomon went to work as the editor-in-chief of The Washington Times. And now he’s running Circa. You may remember that Circa was a startup with an ingenious but ultimately flawed or perhaps premature concept that debuted to much fanfare but ultimately shuttered. The URL and social media feeds of Circa were purchased by Sinclair Broadcasting, a hyper-right-wing media conglomerate, which is now buying up properties to bring its style of post-Fox News propaganda television nationwide. Sinclair put Solomon in charge of Circa and relaunched it as a Buzzfeed for right wing propaganda focused on millennials.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-easy-mark

And when a tool to track what dubious twitter accounts were pushing was launched, it turned out Circa stories were highly favoured: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029415133#post4