Department of Justice this week accusations Among the employees of RT, of Russia The premier has been met with jeers and jeers in Moscow, a state-controlled propaganda outlet. Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief, posted a couple of messages on her Telegram channel — and none of them sounded like denials.
In her first reaction to the telegram, Simonyan mocked officials in the United States for being too slow to catch RT’s nefarious activities. She wrote, “Ptooey, they finally woke up!”
The unsealed indictment alleges that prominent right-wing influencers such as Tim Poole, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson were secretly funded by Russian state media personnel to produce content favorable to them.
The founders of Tenet Media were also implicated in the allegations. While those people weren’t named, Lauren Chen and Liam Donovan are the only people who fit that description. Thursday, Blaze Media CEO Tyler Carden said in a statement Traffic light Kay Chen was fired after the allegation.
“Lauren Chen was an independent contractor whose contract has been terminated,” he said.
In Simonyan’s other posts, she noted that influencers who were allegedly showered with $10 million in Russian rubles were denying their awareness of the source of the windfall. “Bloggers, of course, deny everything, but what else can they do,” the head of RT pointed out.
In another post about the charges and sanctions, Simonyan wrote, “Great job, team!”
She described the reaction in the United States as “paranoia”, but hardly bothered to deny the accusations. Finally, in past years, Simonyan has repeatedly bragged about RT’s ongoing efforts to destabilize the United States, Aimed to contribute to America’s eventual downfall. During multiple state TV appearances, she proudly described building her network “A Whole Empire of Secret Projects,” peddling Russian propaganda, while concealing its origins.
In 2022, Simonyan accepted“When they [Western governments] Carpet bombed in front of us and destroyed everything, denied us any access to transmit information, we came to our senses and began to penetrate their defenses using partisan ways: under other names, with different people, in new ways. I will not reveal the rest here.”
While Simonyan pretended to laugh off the result, reactions from other prominent state media campaigners were less than cheerful. Andrei Lugovoy, who the courts found responsible for the 2006 murder of Alexander Litvinenko by radiation poisoning in London, and who now serves as a member of the State Duma, appeared on a state TV show. An evening with Vladimir Solovyov On Thursday, pretending to understand how RT could get away with transferring $10 million to the United States to pay influencers for their services.
The host, Vladimir Solovyov, was visibly shaken by the indictment of his friend Dmitry Sims, who has repeatedly appeared on his show to condemn US policies and justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Solovyov and his fellow campaigners expressed that warning Tucker Carlson A further charge could be made by requesting the Russian government to immediately grant asylum to all involved.
Karen Shakhnazarov, Director General of Mosfilm, hailed Sims as a “self-made hero” and is now paying the price. He called on all Russians to follow his example. Shakhnazarov jokingly noted, “Margo Simonian is making American presidents left and right.” He speculated that the charges against RT and Sims were brought as part of the presidential election to undermine “our Donald”.
Solovyov and Shakhnazarov pointed to the relationship between Sims and Trump, who implicated the Russian state TV host in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Shakhnazarov claimed that Sims and Trump were still communicating—and that by indicting Sims, the Justice Department was actually hitting Trump.
Prominent lawmakers and propagandists on Russian state TV frequently admit that Russia is still interested in advancing “Trumpushka.” Fake “Endorsement” of the Vice President Kamala Harris by the Russian President Vladimir Putin Designed to boost Russia’s favored contender – just like his earlier attempt to discredit US President Joe Biden by claiming to support his re-election in his interview with Carlson. At that time state TV announcers Gloriously described this attempt to mislead Americans Because Putin carefully planted “information-bombs and mines” during the meeting with Carlson.
After airing a clip with Putin’s comments, claiming to support Harris’ presidential candidacy, Solovyov laughed and promised that gullible Americans would think Putin was serious.
Dropping pretense and refusing to play along with Putin’s charade, Andrei Sidorov, Moscow State University’s deputy dean of world politics, insisted, “I will always root for Trump. Trump is a direct path to civil war in the United States.
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