Lawfare Archive: Foreign Interference... It's Happening
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The Iranians Think Imitating the Proud Boys Would Hurt Donald Trump
CNN's John Defterios says the Iranians may be playing two layers of chess. They knew that this email, which framed itself as trying to intimidate people into supporting Donald Trump, would quickly be linked back to his statement in first debate where he refused to denounce the proud boys. This is really a prank email, for lack of a better way to put it," said Defterios. "One that clearly was intended to have a disinformation effect and a political, public impact effect"
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