OPINION:
Well here’s an interesting twist to the whole “Russians hacked the election thing” the Democrats — led by the suggestive powers of the former President, Barack Obama — have been trying to press into the public collective mind: The Russians are now accused of demanding hush money from progressive groups.
Those wascally wabbits. They’re everywhere it seems, nowadays.
Here’s how Bloomberg puts it: “Russian hackers are targeting U.S. progressive groups in a new wave of attacks, scouring the organizations’ emails for embarrassing details and attempting to extract hush money, according to two people familiar with probes being conducted by the FBI and private security firms.”
They’ve demanded their blackmail bucks by Bitcoin, apparently. To the tune of $30,000 to $150,000, depending on the organization.
And what exactly does that amount of Bitcoin buy?
Good question. Here’s the answer: It covers up funding information tied to the big-time anti-President Trump movement that’s been riding high on liberal waves for months.
This is huge. Democrats and leftists have been trying to sell the idea for months that all these Hate Trump protests in the streets, on college campuses and so forth, have been completely of, by and for the people, and not staffed with paid agitators and facilitators.
Of course, the smart money has been on George Soros, and his leftist cohorts — but Dems have gone out of their way to deny the connections.
Now, we may have clarity.
According to this Bloomberg report, a dozen or so left-leaning groups have reportedly faced extortion in just the few months since the presidential election. Most are unnamed. But one is not.
The Center for American Progress — you know, that nonprofit that claims to be nonpartisan but is led primarily by pit-bull progressive defenders of Mr. Obama and former President Bill Clinton, like Tom Dashle and John Podesta — is one of the groups allegedly asked to cough up hush money for the Russians. A CAP spokesperson said this to Bloomberg: “CAP has no evidence we have been hacked, no knowledge of it and no reason to believe it to be true.”
But what else would CAP say?
Painting a picture of impromptu, organic protests against the president has been a cornerstone of the left’s messaging against Mr. Trump from the get-go. On top of that, it’s not like CAP is this bastion of honest wheelings and dealings. The FBI has already pointed fingers at the group as the mastermind of the hacking into the Democratic National Committee in 2016.
Lucy, I think you’ve got some ’splainin’ to do.
Mr. Trump has been calling out the protest movement as bunk for months, saying in one tweet in late February: “The so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually, in numerous cases, planned out by liberal activists. Sad!”
Insert the word “paid” in front of “liberal activists,” and we’re probably getting a bit closer to the truth.
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