Russian President Vladimir Putin will chair a meeting with members of the government in Moscow on February 5, 2020.
Aleksey Nikolskyi | Sputnik | Kremlin | Reuters
Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin, approved intelligence services to promote misinformation about President Joe Biden through the U.S. media and people close to then-President Donald Trump in an effort to increase Trump’s election chances, a U.S. intelligence report said Tuesday.
Specifically, the report said that Putin was “in control of the activities of Adriy Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker who played a prominent role in Russia’s electoral influence”.
Derkach, who has ties to Russian intelligence, is known to have met with Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney who spent months making discredited allegations against Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
The results are the second “key verdict” in the released National Intelligence Council report on “Foreign Threats to the 2020 US Federal Election”.
That section states: “We evaluate that Russian President Putin authorized and conducted a number of Russian government organizations to influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party to ex-President Trump support to undermine public confidence in the electoral process and exacerbate socio-political divisions in the US. “
“Unlike in 2016, we have not seen any sustained Russian cyber efforts to gain access to the electoral infrastructure. We have great confidence in our assessment. Russian state and electoral representatives, who all serve the interests of the Kremlin, have the US -Influences the public in a consistent manner, “the report said.
“A key element of Moscow’s strategy in this electoral cycle has been the use of officials associated with Russian intelligence to spread narratives of influence – including misleading or unfounded allegations against President Biden – on US media organizations, US officials and prominent US individuals, including some related parties, transferring former President Trump and his administration. “
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