Interactions and Contacts with the Trump Campaign in Russia's Social Media Campaign
Connections between the IRA and Trump Campaign were identified but not with Clinton Campaign. On multiple occasions, members and surrogates of the Trump Campaign promoted-typically by linking, re-tweeting, or similar methods of reposting pro-Trump or anti-Clinton content/disinformation published by the IRA through IRA-controlled social media accounts. In a few instances, IRA employees represented themselves as U.S. persons to communicate with Trump Campaign to seek their participation on IRA-organized political rallies. [see detail next]
Trump Campaign Promotion of IRA Political Materials
Trump Campaign affiliates promoted dozens of tweets, posts, and other political content created by the IRA. Listed in the table are the examples mentioned in the Mueller Report.
| Trump Campaign Promotion Of IRA Disinformation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRA controlled Social Media account | Time | Individual | Disinformation or Response/Reaction | Action |
| Twitter @TEN_GOP | Donald J. Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Brad Parscale, and Michael T. Flynn | allegations of voter fraud, allegations that Secretary Clinton had mishandled classified information | cited or retweeted | |
| Twitter @Pamela_ Moore 13 | 11/7/16 | Donald J. Trump Jr. | not mentioned in Mueller report | retweeted |
| Twitter @ l0_gop (the backup account of @TEN_ GOP, which had already been deactivated by Twitter) | 9/19/17 | Donald Trump | not disinformation; response | retweet |
| Facebook Matt Skibe | 8/23/16 | Donald Trump | reaction to 8/20/16 Rally in Miami | facebook message to an activist - "Mr. Trump posted about our event in Miami! ...." |
Contact with Trump Campaign Officials in Connection to Rallies
Starting 6/x/16, IRA contacted different U.S. persons affiliated with the Trump Campaign in an effort to coordinate pro-Trump IRA-organized rallies, all claiming to be U.S. political activists working on behalf of a conservative grassroots organization. The IRA's contacts included requests for signs and other materials to use at rallies, as well as requests to promote the rallies and help coordinate Logistics. Evidence were not identified that Trump Campaign knew the requests were coming from foreign nationals.
Trump's Written Answer
Question i was the last question on the set of questions regarding Russian Hacking / Russian Efforts Using Social Media /WikiLeaks; it asks about whether Trump was aware of Russia's Social Media Campaign.]
Trump's written answer was - "I do not recall being aware during the campaign of specific efforts by foreign individuals or companies to assist my campaign through the use of social media postings or the organization of rallies."
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