The official said China doesn’t appear to have a preference for a particular candidate.

The U.S. intelligence community believes the Kremlin will direct its propaganda efforts to support former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election, an intelligence official indicated on a media call Monday.

Iran is likely to continue to try to denigrate Trump, the official said, and China doesn’t appear to have a preference in the presidential race but may try to interfere in congressional races.

The call, held by the Foreign Malign Influence Center, one of the few arms of the U.S. government devoted to countering foreign propaganda campaigns, elaborated on an agency alert about foreign propaganda campaigns released Monday afternoon.

The official’s remarks were the clearest sign yet that the U.S. believes Trump remains Russia’s preferred candidate even after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee.

  • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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    3 months ago

    “Russia might continue interfering in international politics while supporting a Russian asset they’ve interfered with international politics before to support”

    I know things like this should be pointed out at ANY AND EVERY OPPORTUNITY, because apparently people have short attention spans… But holy shit reading stuff like this just makes me think the average person is so out of touch with reality that they literally need daily reminders that one of the shittiest people they know is still shitty.

    The only people who don’t think Russia has something on Trump that makes him an asset that they can use to destabilize politics in a rival country at any and every opportunity, are people somehow ignorant of the last decade of history, useful idiots, and people being paid to think that.