Russian actors made fake video depicting mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed, FBI says

https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-fact-check-trump-ballots-destroyed-pennsylvania-d75fdc56c71d77c7a48d8fca96b03288

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  1. > The video showed a person sorting through what looked like mail ballots labeled as coming from Bucks County. The person, who was Black, appeared to be tearing up ballots marked for Trump, and leaving alone ballots marked for Vice President Kamala Harris.
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    The video used a Black actor with a foreign accent — a choice that may be intentional as a way to inflame existing divisions on American soil, according to Josephine Lukito, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin who has researched Russian disinformation.

  2. Interesting that this is making bigger headlines, Scott Pressler who is one of those leading the charge for Republicans in Pennsylvania was very quick to debunk the video.

  3. Russia really likes Trump, that tells us all we need to know about Trump. He’s bad for the US and he’s bad for the world.

    If Trump gets in he’s 100% stoping all Ukraine support for his buddy.

  5. It’s easy for them, they know exactly what destroying ballots looks like since every Russian election is rigged to to the moon and back. Now that Putin and Musk are besties it makes even easier to spread the conspiracies. America is so fucked right now 🇺🇸🤦🏼‍♂️

  8. Similarities between Trump and Hitler:

    1. Both scapegoat minorities;
    Hitler it was Roma, Jews, LGBT people and black people, Trump it’s immigrants, LGBT people and Muslims.

    2. Both expressed strong ideas of nationalism; Hitler promoted returning to Germany’s former “greatness”, Trump has MAGA slogan.

    3. Hitler coined “Lügenpresse” (lying press) to discredit the media, Trump’s go-to phrase is “fake news” for any news that doesn’t favour him and also referred to it as “the enemy of the people”.

    4. Both capitalised on fear to consolidate power; Hitler had the Reichstag fire, Trump has bullshit election fraud claims.

    5. Hitler aligned his views with Christian imagery to dupe stupid fucks, Trump does the same.

    6. Hitler centralised power and replaced government workers with those that are loyal to him rather than the country, so the when ‘democratic’ elections were held, it was entirely rigged; Trump is to do the same according to Project 2025. Along with this, Trump has said “I want generals like the ones Hitler had (loyal to him and not the state)” and well as “if you vote for me you’ll never have to vote again”.

    7. They both led an insurrection attempt before making a return to politics. At least Hitler was imprisoned for the events of Beer Hall Putsch; Trump hasn’t received any punishment for 6th January.

    On top of this, Trump was found to be libel of sexual abuse by a jury of his peers, failed to appeal twice and the judge residing over the case specified twice that he is, by both common and state law definitions, a rapist. Further to this, he regularly hung out with Epstein and also hung out with P Diddy.

    He’s also been convicted 34 times; keeping in mind in many cases, felons can’t vote until their sentence is complete, but apparently they can run for office that people are voting for.

    He’s also been colluding with Putin for years, even giving Russia valuable equipment like respirators during the covid pandemic when parts of America had a shortage. Along with this, he colluded with his sidekick Musk, a US defence contractor whom also has been in regular contact with Putin for 2 years, even doing him and Jinping a favour by not deploying Starlink over Taiwan.

  9. Of course, conflict, mistrust ,and destabilization has always been the goal for Russia with him.

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