Anyone paid by RT is paid by the Kremlin. If you listen to anyone paid by RT, you are being manipulated by Russian propaganda. This is not a hard connection to make. Patriotic Americans just say no to Russian propaganda.

Good propaganda gently leads you down the trail by appealing to some of your innate bias and then nudging you in the direction they want you to go until you think that YOU thought of it yourself. It's insidious. I constructed a private Twitter list of RT and other Russian propaganda sources specifically to track what they are doing and sometime I find myself nodding along to an article that rings my bells in just the right way. They are very good at what they do. Beware.