Jill Stein is having her “Russigate” moment, decrying a McCarthyist “smear campaign” against her for attending a Russian dinner that notably included Michael Flynn and a gent named Putin.
In a 45-minute “Fireside Chat,” the 2016 Green Party presidential candidate on Facebook said she supported the “mission” of the Robert Mueller investigation.
(She also takes aim at The Washington Post, which she called The Bezos Post after world’s richest man Jeff Bezos of Amazon.)
But now that she’s on the investigator’s radar, Stein is going on the offense.
“Stein cast doubt Friday on the United States intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election,” Newsweek said. “Stein’s comments came days after it was revealed that she had become embroiled in the Russia investigation when the Senate Intelligence Committee requested documents from her campaign.”
About that 2015 Russia Today event:
“There was no translator at the table,” Stein told CNN. “Vladimir Putin came in very late, with three, four people that I thought were his bodyguards, turns out they were core people in his administration, but you never would have known that.
“There were no introductions, no conversations. Russians spoke Russian, I spoke to the only person in earshot who spoke English, who was a German diplomat that was sitting to my right. So it was really quite a non-event.”
In any case, Stein thinks the Russia probes are off-base saying in a tweet: “Focusing exclusively on alleged foreign hacking is a mistake. We need a full inquiry into all potential sources of election interference, including partisan operatives, corporations that control our voting machines, voter suppression schemes and more.”
Stein’s tweetstorm on Russia:
Anyone who says “if you didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton you must’ve been influenced by Russia” is basically saying they don’t have a real argument. Voters can think for themselves. https://t.co/QjL1xzhIaa
— Dr. Jill Stein???? (@DrJillStein) December 21, 2017
Why is asking to see evidence so controversial in America just 14 years after the Intelligence Community lied us into the catastrophic Iraq War together with both Wall Street parties and corporate media? https://t.co/GzwqN9XQom
— Dr. Jill Stein???? (@DrJillStein) December 22, 2017
Focusing exclusively on alleged foreign hacking is a mistake. We need a full inquiry into all potential sources of election interference, including partisan operatives, corporations that control our voting machines, voter suppression schemes and more. https://t.co/RQ1mM7SKIm
— Dr. Jill Stein???? (@DrJillStein) December 22, 2017