President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner downplayed Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election Tuesday, suggesting it amounted to “a couple of Facebook ads.”
“When you look at what Russia did, buying some Facebook ads to try to sow dissent, it's a terrible thing,” Kushner said at the TIME 100 Summit in New York. “But I think the investigations and all the speculation that's happened for the last two years has had a much harsher impact on our democracy than a couple of Facebook ads.”
Kushner said that he spent about $160,000 on Facebook every three hours during the campaign, “so if you look at the magnitude of what they did and what they accomplished, I think the ensuing investigations have been way more harmful to our country.”
Doesn't anyone realize the economy is doing well and that that fact will be a determining factor in the next President election cycle? You'd think the Dems would be wanting to put out their own economic strategy that would best what the President has done.
ReplyDeleteAside from just wanting to redistribute the wealth, however, they seem more concerned with attacking the downplaying of the Russian interference than on getting serious and talking money.
Mr. Kushner's point is well taken. For all the interference, the only thing the Russians did that actually impacted, practically speaking, real voters was stuff like the Facebook campaign.
And that campaign was to sow discord. Yes, the Ruskies may have preferred a Donald Trump victory. But the advertising campaign fails to belie that motive. The intent of the campaign has been imputed, but prima facie it doesn't seem pro-Trump.