Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson addressed allegations that a company they were associated with had been paid to publish videos with messages in favour of Russia
A number of high-profile, conservative influencers in the US have said they are “victims” of an alleged Russian disinformation campaign, after the Biden administration accused Moscow of carrying out a sustained campaign to influence the outcome of November’s presidential elections.
Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson published statements on Wednesday evening addressing allegations that a US content creation company they were associated with had been provided with nearly $10m from Russian state media employees to publish videos with messages in favour of Moscow’s interests and agenda, including over the war in Ukraine.
Sounds like treason to me.
Russian assets deny being Russian assets. Cool beans, ya fuckin’ traitors.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
“We didn’t know where the money came from?!?! Why would we ever ask why they wanted us to say Russia is super cool???”
I’m positive moat, it not all of these other right-wing media shitheads like Tucker Carlson, News Max hosts, Bannon…etc have all received dirty Russian money, and they know it.
We need this all to be brought out in the open ASAP.
“I was just following orders”
“I was under the imperius curse!”
“It was the beat! The beat got to me!!”
Fun word! Choreomania
I believe they’re confusing the term victim with the word volunteer.
unindicted co-conspirators?
How are they not in prison awaiting trial yet
They were victims of getting rich by knowingly spouting Russian talking points. Even if they weren’t sure the money was coming from Peter Thiel or Vladimir Putin, that’s what they were doing.
DARVO.
How dare they be manipulated to shill for russia with less than adequate bribery!
“Okay it happened, but I didn’t know about it”
Next I assume will be
“Okay it happened and I did know about it, but it’s too late to do anything about it so it doesn’t matter”
“Conservatives admit that they were easily manipulated by Russia”
Conservatives working with the commies.
I took the rubles and made the content! That makes me the victim!
Kinda reminds me of an alien in The Last Starfighter.
They weren’t victims of anything.
These were co-conspirators, and they won’t know true victimhood until the hands of the American people wrap around their throats.
I’ll accept that they were victims if they henceforth renounce the stupid shit they’ve spouted for the last decade.
If I’m behaving in a certain way that makes me attractive to cartoonishly evil Putinesque cunts, I don’t care how benign the behaviour is, I’m not doing it anymore. If as a result of these revelations, Tim Pool et al. dial down their divisive nonsense, even if it’s only by 10%, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.
I’m not holding my breath, though.
These clowns are victims of pro-Russian disinformation in the same way that David Berkowitz is a murder victim.
