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(9,090 posts)trump aide sam nunberg told gabriel sherman for new york magazine 4/3/16 that in 2014 he listened to 1000s of hours of talk radio and reported to trump.
he should be asked more detail. talk radio does the base repetition for all their big lies and unlike fox it is a lot more local when it needs to be. states avg over 20 rw stations per state. the russians the first batch of gov walker emails showed that he coordinated with local wisconsin blowhard charlie sykes and others. the gop and their think tanks used to do most of the coordination, with drudge etc, for the MIC, but then breitbart came along before 2008 elections. why not use breitbart.com and others to feed putin sabotage to US talk radio? and after that maybe limbaugh started doing freelance work for the russians - like creating 'climategate' from a russian hack in 2009 and trying to get debt default in 2011. was he doing freelance work?
right around benghazi rw radio blowhards screamed obama and sos clinton had ordered embassy marines around the world not to carry live ammo - so they were basically encouraging terrorism - like debt default, would some koch think tank push that to them? most of them are stupid enough to repeat it just to trash obama/clinton but.... even after the marines spokesman had to denounce the lie some of them kept repeating it.
how did the russians know what the best talking points and memes were and coordinate with trump on their trolling? if they asked the trump guys for guidance (they would not have told them what to use) those city boys, who were not part of the republican establishment, would need to figure it out. not only that, there would need to be some way to coordinate without direct communication. anyone who has observed talk radio knows trump is the talk radio president. his base actually believes that crap from limbaugh and sons.
the russian trolls and trump geared their campaigns to piggyback 25 years of anti hillary/dem/liberal talk radio/fox.
the russians would recognize a propaganda operation even tho US media and analists ignore it. talk radio was the most important component of the trump rise, with limbaugh attacking rubio and bush on immigration and making excuses for trump whenever needed - like every day.
the investigators need to ask limbaugh hannity savage levin coulter etc if they cyprus bank accounts, altho limbaugh would be the main fish.
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