Russia
How Are Trump A-Holes Lying About Election Hacking Intel? Here's A Clue!
It's still Russia. Not 'GIIIIIIINA. Not Iran. Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia.
September 11, 2020 09:20 AM
We've written thirty-eleventy times in the last month on the Trump administration's ongoing plan to manufacture an election attack from China in support of Joe Biden, in order to distract from/absolve responsibility for the attack Russia is currently doing for its old buddy Donald Trump. "No, it's 'GIIIIIIIINA," they protest. And thanks to a new whistleblower, we know Trump officials at the Department of Homeland Security are actively telling their people to hide the intel on Russian attacks, and gin up/exaggerate threats from China.
But the assessment from William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), did say 'GIIIIIIINA was doing some stuff. Not directly to this election, but longterm, 'GIIIIIIIINA got some plans. And maybe they're in there mucking around with some stuff right now.
Thanks to Microsoft, we actually have some information on what kind of hacking is being done, and by whom. Surprise, it's still fucking Russia, mostly.
<p>Here are some bullet points from Microsoft, which we'll explain below:</p><blockquote>Strontium, operating from Russia, has attacked <strong>more than 200 organizations</strong> including political campaigns, advocacy groups, parties and political consultants<br><br><span></span>Zirconium, operating from China, has attacked high-profile individuals associated with the election, including people associated with the Joe Biden for President campaign and prominent leaders in the international affairs community<br><br><span></span>Phosphorus, operating from Iran, has continued to attack the personal accounts of people associated with the Donald J. Trump for President campaign<br></blockquote><p>The fuck you say? </p><p>OK, let's break this down. As Microsoft explains, first of all, most of these attacks have been stopped. (They can only stop shit they observe that involves their own clients.) </p><p>Strontium is Russia. It's the same group of hackers that attacked Hillary Clinton's campaign. It's Russian military intelligence. They are trying to attack <em>lots</em> of people, and Microsoft says their tactics have moved beyond mere spear-phishing, where they make you click on the bad links and give up your own password. They're now "engaged in brute force attacks and password spray, two tactics that have likely allowed them to automate aspects of their operations," according to Microsoft's blog post. They're also getting better at disguising what they're doing.</p><p>Zirconium is 'GIIIIIIIIIINA. What is 'GIIIIIIIIIINA doing?</p><blockquote>First, the group is targeting people closely associated with U.S. presidential campaigns and candidates. For example, it appears to have indirectly and <strong>unsuccessfully targeted the Joe Biden for President</strong> campaign through non-campaign email accounts belonging to people affiliated with the campaign. The group has also targeted at least one prominent individual formerly associated with the Trump Administration.<br><br>Second, the group is targeting prominent individuals in the international affairs community, academics in international affairs from more than 15 universities, and accounts tied to 18 international affairs and policy organizations including the Atlantic Council and the Stimson Center.<br></blockquote><p>Interesting! Wait, they're targeting Joe Biden? VERY INTERESTING. Trump certainly <em>has</em> said <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-would-like-to-add-gina-to-his-articles-of-impeachment-please" target="_blank">'GIIIIIINA IF YOU'RE LISTENING</a> quite a few times. </p><p>Here's the part about Phosphorus, which is Iran:</p><blockquote>Phosphorus has attempted to access the personal or work accounts of individuals involved directly or indirectly with the U.S. presidential election. Between May and June 2020, Phosphorus unsuccessfully attempted to log into the accounts of administration officials and Donald J. Trump for President campaign staff.</blockquote><p>Hey you know how sometimes when people lie, they do it by YOOGELY exaggerating about something that's more-or-less true, and then mangling it into a whole new thing that is a complete lie? Reading this, we're beginning to think that's what fuckers like <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/psycho-fascist-bill-barr-explains-how-2020s-trump-election-stealing-gonna-work" target="_blank">Bill Barr are doing,</a> when they say they've seen the intel, and go on Fox News to say the biggest threat to the election is 'GIIIIIIIINA. </p><p>Microsoft explains that the kind of attacks China is doing seem to be intended to "perform reconnaissance on targeted accounts to determine if the account is valid or the user is active." In other words, they're spying. Everybody spies.</p><p>The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-have-targeted-200-groups-tied-to-presidential-election-microsoft-says-11599763502" target="_blank">spoke to</a> an expert who gives more context:</p><blockquote>John Hultquist, director of intelligence analysis at the U.S.-based cybersecurity company <a href="https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/FEYE" target="_blank">FireEye</a> Inc., said that the threat to the election posed by Russia's military intelligence exceeded that from other nations, given its tendency toward "brash and aggressive cyber operations."<br><br>As in previous elections, China and Iran are likely targeting campaigns to quietly collect intelligence, Mr. Hultquist said. But Russia's "unique history raises the prospect of follow-on information operations or other devastating activity."<br></blockquote><p>We feel like he's saying <em>of course</em> China and Iran are doing shit. They're <em>always</em> doing shit. But their version of Doing Shit is not the same as Russia's version of DOING SHIT. </p><p>So when Mike Pompeo or Chad Wolf or Bill Barr or Trump comes in with some breaking news about what China is doing, that's likely how they're lying. They're expecting most people not to know that China and Iran are always doing some shit. </p><p>We saw it in the impeachment of Trump, with the GOP's refrain of "BUT UKRAINE COLLUDED WITH DEMOCRATS TOO ALSO!" What did Ukraine do? Nothing, except some Ukrainian politicians <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/senate-intel-committee-knows-gop-ukraine-conspiracy-theories-are-horsesh-t-but-shhhhhhhh-its-a-secret" target="_blank">posted on Facebook</a> that Trump sux. Hey, look over there! Don't look at Russia!</p><p>So too now.</p><p>What are 'GIIIIIINA and Iran doing? Some spy shit.</p><p>What is Russia doing? Actively working to steal re-election for Donald Trump.</p><p>Don't fall for these assholes and their lies. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-have-targeted-200-groups-tied-to-presidential-election-microsoft-says-11599763502" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a> / <a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/09/10/cyberattacks-us-elections-trump-biden/" target="_blank">Microsoft</a>]</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a><br></strong></p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. If you love Wonkette, WE NEED YOUR LOVE GIFTS TO KEEP US GOING.</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Oh No Who Spent All The Trump Campaign Money It's A Mystery For Sure
It's almost like they are bad at 'money.'
September 08, 2020 12:18 PM
It's after Labor Day, and just as the election is kicking into high gear, the Trump campaign is running out of cash. Sad!
The New York Times reports that the campaign has burned through $800 million of its $1.1 billion stash, only to find itself 7.5 points behind in the FiveThirtyEight average.
"I think a lot of the money was spent when voters weren't paying attention," said veteran GOP strategist Ed Rollins, who condemns former campaign manager Brad "Chin Pubes" Parscale for spending "like a drunken sailor." And the Times seems to agree Parscale is to blame for the premature ejaculation of cash, after spending great wads of it on travel, online fundraising, and his own media companies. For comparison Parscale, who had his own dedicated car and driver, pocketed more every month than Biden's campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon makes in a year. And her candidate is actually leading in the polls.
Far be it from Your Wonkette to defend that pituitary case, but ... this sure as shit ain't all on Brad. Parscale's got a point when he complains, "I ran the campaign the same way I did in 2016, which also included all of the marketing, strategy and expenses under the very close eye of the family. No decision was made without their approval." When the House of Grift is running the campaign, you have to anticipate a whole bunch of people are going to take a bite.
<p>People like Don Jr.'s ladyfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle and Eric Trump's wife Lara Trump, each of whom are paid $15,000/month for fundraising work. Or Trump's former bodyguard Keith Schiller, who's pocketed upwards of $500,000 from the RNC since he left the White House in 2017. And not for nothing, but Omarosa Manigault Newman <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/omaosa-ohmyfuck" target="_blank">said</a> she'd been offered a salary of $15,000/monthly to come over to the campaign and sign an NDA that would prevent her writing a book and shittalking the president. How many other former White House staffers have been parked at the campaign, RNC, or a PAC to keep them quiet and on-side?</p><p>And then there's the Grifter in Chief himself. Since 2019, the campaign has forked over more than $4 million to Trump's personal businesses for office space in Trump Tower and events at Mar-a-Lago and the Trump Hotel in DC. Ka-ching!</p><p>The campaign and RNC also picked up legal bills associated with the impeachment and Russia investigation for favored Gippers like Don Jr., and it plans to spend $50 million subsidizing <a href="https://www.democracydocket.com/our-cases/" target="_blank">cases</a> all over the country to "protect" the election from the scourges of mail-in voting and ballot drop boxes.</p><p>There's also this odd tidbit which sent every reporter in DC scurrying off to figure out exactly WTF is going on.</p><blockquote>The R.N.C. also paid a large legal bill of $666,666.67 to Reuters News & Media at the end of June. Both Reuters and the R.N.C. declined to discuss the payment. It was labeled "legal proceedings — IP resolution," suggesting it was related to a potential litigation over intellectual property.</blockquote><p>Who paid the other $333,333.33, and more importantly, WHY?????</p><p>On top of which, there are "other squandered costs driven by Mr. Trump's sometimes mercurial desires," which is NYTspeak for all the <em>stupid shit</em> the campaign has to shell out for because their candidate is a whinyass little narcissist. Like $11 million in Super Bowl ads last February during the primary, because that's what Bloomberg spent for his worthless primary bid, and Trump needed to keep pace. Or $400,000 in June to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-camp-runs-ads-on-dc-cable-to-ease-boss-anxieties-and-buck-up-congressional-republicans?ref=home" target="_blank">run ads</a> in DC — DC! — to calm President Couch Potato down after the Lincoln Project successfully trolled him into losing his shit by running ads during Trump's morning television fix. </p><p>And let's not forget the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/us/politics/republican-convention-jacksonville-charlotte.html" target="_blank">$38 million</a> they lit on fire when Trump stomped out of North Carolina because Gov. Roy Cooper wouldn't let him run a mask-free Covidapalooza Convention in Charlotte. Although he <em>showed us</em> by staging it on the White House lawn instead, because fuck the Hatch Act, amirite?</p><p><span></span>But forget the blame game. Let's go back to pointing and laughing at the campaign's current cash crunch, which is equally delicious. When Parscale finally got the axe and was replaced by Bill Stepien, the campaign immediately went dark on ads and reined in spending. Depending on which staffer is leaking to Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher, this is either a crafty strategy to save money for the fall when voters are tuning in, or a sign that we've entered the Spirit Airlines phase of the campaign. </p><p>In August, the Biden campaign raised a whopping $365 million. The previous one-month record was held by Obama, whose campaign netted $193 million in September of 2012. During that same period, Trump campaign and RNC have raised ... well, no one knows because they haven't released the numbers yet. But it's a safe bet they would have shouted them from the rooftops if they were anywhere close to Biden's haul. </p><p>But don't worry, the campaign is about to get a yuuuuuuuuuge cash infusion. Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-08/trump-weighs-putting-up-to-100-million-of-his-cash-into-race?sref=Qd5CKovW" target="_blank">says</a> Trump is threatening to spend $100 million of his own money to ensure he gets to continue squatting in the Oval Office livetweeting "Fox and Friends." Hey, quit laughing, you guys! He's really for serious going to fork over that money!</p><p>In 2016, Trump put $66 million into his own campaign. But Bloomberg notes that Trump's net worth is down $300 million since he took office and he appears to have somewhere between $46 million and $157 million cash on hand. And if you think Trump is going to wager his last liquid dollar on this campaign, well, perhaps you'd be interested in purchasing a mint condition bridge.</p><p>In summary and in conclusion, Trump is poor. And a loser. The other countries are all laughing at us. 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Russia
For (Sadly Not) The Last Time, 'GIIIIIIINA Isn't Doing Sh*t To Help Joe Biden
RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA.
September 03, 2020 09:15 AM
Clearly, the message has gone out! Donald Trump and his merry band of racist shit-fascists have decided that one of their most potent weapons to help Russia help them attack the 2020 election is to muddy the waters by baselessly saying 'GIIIIIIINA is attacking the election to help Joe Biden win. After all, if two of our adversaries are doing it, they cancel each other out, obviously!
Verified absolute moron DNI John Ratcliffe said it on Fox News this weekend, claiming that threats from 'GIIIIIIINA are much greater than they are from Russia, which might be true, except for how it's Russia attacking this election, not 'GIIIIIIINA. The entire Republican National Convention was 'GIIIIINA 'GIIIIINA 'GIIIIIINA. Donald Trump himself is saying it. 'GIIIIIIIIIINA.
But wait, is 'GIIIIIIINA doing anything to the election? Because we know, from the statement from William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), that Russia is literally right now actively engaged in an attack on the 2020 election for Trump's benefit. And 'GIIIIIIIINA? "We assess that China prefers that President Trump – whom Beijing sees as unpredictable – does not win reelection."
Oh, they PREFER that? Has Xi Jinping put a Biden sign in his yard or something? Is he sharing Kamala .gifs on his MySpace?
China has been expanding its influence efforts ahead of November 2020 to shape the policy environment in the United States, pressure political figures it views as opposed to China's interests, and deflect and counter criticism of China. Although China will continue to weigh the risks and benefits of aggressive action, its public rhetoric over the past few months has grown increasingly critical of the current Administration's COVID-19 response, closure of China's Houston Consulate, and actions on other issues. For example, it has harshly criticized the Administration's statements and actions on Hong Kong ...
Gotcha. China has said things publicly that are mean to Donald Trump, and they certainly have policy preferences for what they would like America to do, and that is somehow the same, in traitorous Republicans' eyes. Just like a few Ukrainian politicians posted "FUK TRUMP" memes on their Facebooks in 2016, and they act like that is the same as Russia's actual covert attack on the election.
Natasha Bertrand has a piece this week in Politico on this coordinated GOP strategy, with quotes from actual people inside the intelligence apparatus about how full of shit they are.
<blockquote>"China is the bigger and longer term threat to U.S. national security," said an official who has seen the underlying intelligence. "But it does not pose the most acute threat to this election. Russia does."</blockquote><p>See how that is the same thing as what John Ratcliffe says, except for how Ratcliffe left out that last part, just like actual fascist GOP Senator Tom Cotton left it out in an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/president-biden-pander-china-lifelong-record-sen-tom-cotton" target="_blank">op-ed for Fox News?</a> Let's call it lying by omission, since that is the common expression for that. Let's also call it doing Russia's bidding, because it just fucking is. (And he's not the only Trump Cabinet-level official doing it, either, <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/acting-chad-blocks-memo-on-russian-efforts-to-flog-biden-dementia-storyline-no-collusion" target="_blank">OH HEY CHAD WOLF.</a>)</p><p>We didn't watch the whole <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-dni-idiot-john-ratcliffe-knows-russia-attacking-election-but-shhhhh-its-a-secret" target="_blank">Ratcliffe Fox interview,</a> just the parts about how Ratcliffe is ending in-person briefings on current election threats for members of Congress (see: doing Russia's bidding), but Bertrand shares a quote that falls more into the category of outright lying, as opposed to just a sin of omission:</p><blockquote>Ratcliffe [said] that "in an unclassified setting, I can't get into a whole lot of details, other than to say that China is using a massive and sophisticated influence campaign that dwarfs anything that any other country is doing."</blockquote><p>Right. Except not right, and runs directly counter to Evanina's statement above. (Evanina and the NCSC are part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, by the way. This is all coming from the same office.) </p><blockquote>"Does Beijing have the capability to wake up tomorrow and say, 'we really want to mess with the election' and interfere on a huge scale? Yes," the official said. "But do they want to do that? And have they been doing that? That's not borne out by the intelligence."</blockquote><p>In other words China <em>could</em> do this, if China wanted to. But the actual intelligence, which Ratcliffe is apparently willing to lie through his teeth about on Fox News, says nope. </p><p>More from Bertrand's sources, who are automatically more trustworthy than John Ratcliffe, whose first nomination for DNI was tanked because of how he'd <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/new-trump-dni-pick-just-as-dumb-a-liar-as-last-trump-dni-pick-because-its-literally-the-same-guy" target="_blank">lied about his resume:</a></p><blockquote>Beijing's traditional malign influence operations [...] have not been deployed to boost Biden or sabotage Trump or otherwise wade into the presidential election specifically, officials said, citing the intelligence they'd reviewed. [...] <br><br>"The bottom line is they are a significant threat," [a] national security official said. "But they are highly unlikely to act on their capabilities to move the needle."</blockquote><p>Golly, can two things be true at once? Can China be a long-term threat to the US but simultaneously not have an interest in fucking around in our election like Russia does? Donald Trump and his ass-sucking buddies would like you to believe those two things cannot be true, because they're trying to cover up the fact that Trump and Russia both are revisiting the scene of the crime and trying to do to the election <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/its-manafort-its-always-been-manafort-and-the-senate-intel-committee-seems-to-agree" target="_blank">what they did in 2016.</a> Don't let them get away with it. </p><p>One more quote from an actual non-liar who's seen the intelligence? Have one more!</p><blockquote>"I have been briefed in person on the threats to our elections, and I've reviewed underlying documents to support judgments by the intelligence community," [another person] familiar with the intelligence said. "<strong>The evidence reveals Russia as the only country actively trying to help the president and hurt Biden. Sure, other countries have vast intelligence resources. But Russia is aiming and firing theirs at our election."</strong></blockquote><p>It's Russia. It's only Russia. If another country decides to try to "help," we'll let you know. But it's Russia. Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia. </p><p>Fucking Russia. And their little troll baby in the White House, Donald Trump. </p><p>Sixty-one days until the election. Vote like your fucking life depends on it, because it literally does. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/01/trump-says-china-supporting-biden-407054" target="_blank">Politico</a>]</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a></strong></p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. 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2020 presidential election
Acting Chad Blocks Memo On Russian Efforts To Flog 'Biden Dementia' Storyline. NO COLLUSION!
They just keep inventing new ways to be corrupt.
September 02, 2020 12:20 PM
The intelligence community told the Department of Homeland Security that Russia was going to try to interfere in the American election by painting Joe Biden as a senile old man, but Acting Chad shitcanned the report and hid it from officials charged with preventing foreign electoral interference.
Thats it. That's the tweet. Sixty-one days out from the election, and Donald Trump's minions are scurrying to bend the apparatus of the federal government to help him steal another victory with a helpful assist from his pals in Moscow.
ABC reports that a draft bulletin titled "Russia Likely to Denigrate Health of US Candidates to Influence 2020 Election" was submitted to DHS for review on July 7. The unclassified memo, which stated with "high confidence" that "Russian malign influence actors are likely to continue denigrating presidential candidates through allegations of poor mental or physical health to influence the outcome of the 2020 election," was intended for distribution to state and local election officials. But it never got out, because DHS Chief of Staff John Gountanis swooped in and told them they had to run it by Trump's be-stubbled lackey Chad Wolf, the (acting) secretary of Homeland Security.
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And then it just disappeared, leaving Rampy McWaterglass free to flog lies about Biden being a demented fool hiding in his basement without drawing attention to the fact that he was echoing Russian propaganda. Just like in 2016 when the Trump campaign and the Kremlin troll farmers claimed Hillary Clinton was at death's door. Pretty weird how Trump and his pal Poots are always on exactly the same page, huh? NO COLLUSION!
</p><p>Luckily, ABC has managed to reappear the docs, and you can read them yourself in this tweet.</p>
<div id="941ae" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="cacffad72a0aef3c5206c6bcc0ca3017"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1301136043505221633" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Here are the documents - including an email dated July 7 from Chad Wolf’s chief of staff ordering the bulletin on R… https://t.co/ECfwfH05Zf</div> — jonkarl (@jonkarl)<a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl/statuses/1301136043505221633">1599049981.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p>One example cited in the memo was a March article on a Russian proxy website which "refuted media claims that the candidate's gaffes are a result of a stutter, instead arguing these verbal miscues are symptoms of dementia." And if that sounds familiar, it's because the Trump campaign has been pushing that same story line in its advertising.<br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>But the unnamed — of course! — spokesperson for DHS insists that the memory holing had nothing whatsoever to do with Trump's campaign imperatives.</p><p>"[T]his particular draft product lacked the necessary context and evidence for broader dissemination outside of the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis," the anonymous spox insisted. "After briefing the Acting Secretary and he asked questions, [Office of Intelligence and Analysis] career leadership decided to delay the product for further review."</p><p>BULL. SHIT. </p><p>"We don't need or want any foreign interference," Trump campaign comms bro Tim Murtaugh huffed to ABC, insisting that Donald Trump is Vladimir Putin's worst nightmare and adding that "President Trump will beat Joe Biden fair and square." Just the way they beat Clinton in 2016 ... oh, wait!</p><p>That slimy little weasel John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, is out there <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-dni-idiot-john-ratcliffe-knows-russia-attacking-election-but-shhhhh-its-a-secret" target="_blank">pretending</a> China is THE REAL COLLUSION while simultaneously refusing to brief Congress on electoral interference. Trump is running straight back to Vladimir Putin to coordinate his online campaign messaging. And now the DHS is blocking release of legitimate national security data about the election because it would be bad for the president, and has the temerity to call it a "delay."</p><p>When were they thinking about releasing that info? December?</p><p>They're trying to steal it again. We're not going to let them.</p><p>
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