Exposing Right-Wing Propaganda: The Intelligencer Story
The Guardian has a breaking story about a fake right-wing news outlet called Intelligencer that has been pumping out Kremlin propaganda to influence the US election. As most of us know, Trump and his team never stopped working with the Kremlin after they were caught in the 2016 election. Obviously, this was because the rotting orange head of the fish was never charged for his treason. Now they’ve yet again been caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
Pro-Russian Website Built by Former Trump Advisers
Amid the recent crackdown on Russian influence in American media, a group of former Trump advisers and operatives have quietly helped build a pro-Russian website that frequently spreads debunked conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine, election fraud, and vaccines.
Key Figures Behind Intelligencer
In the article we learn the following:
- George Papadopoulos and His Wife: George Papadopoulos was Trump’s foreign policy aide and pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his previous contacts with Kremlin agents when Trump’s campaign was trying to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from Putin’s henchmen. In January, his wife Simona Mangiante posted a pro-Russia propaganda interview with Andrii Derkach, who has been sanctioned by the US government since 2020 for being an active Russian agent.
- Igor Lopatonok: The company’s got a Los Angeles business address, but the address was provided by board member Igor Lopatonok, who recently filmed a new propaganda film about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Lopatonok’s business address is in Moscow. His propaganda film premiered at Trump Tower in Chicago. The film was hosted by the Christian Orthodox Coalition, of which Papadopoulos, his wife, and Lopatonok are members. It’s important to note the importance of the Christian Orthodox church in propping up Putin’s power in Russia.
- Olga Ravasi: Another board member is Olga Ravasi, former chairwoman of Serbs for Trump in 2020. She currently runs the Serbian American Voters Alliance PAC. Serbs for Trump kicked off their pro-Russia meddling in the election with Ron Johnson and former Trump director of national intelligence, Ric Grenell in March.
- Tyler Nixon: Tyler Nixon, Roger Stone’s personal attorney, is also on the board. He hosts a program on TNT radio, which was the company that gave birth to Intelligencer. Former Radio Sputnik (Russian state-owned) “journalist” Lee Stranahan is also involved with the program.
- George Eliason and Trevor Fitzgibbon: Most of the content is created by George Eliason and Trevor Fitzgibbon. Eliason is an American “journalist” living in eastern Ukraine for the last 10 years. He blames Ukraine for Russia’s invasion. Eliason led the team that designed the original website. Fitzgibbon was the spokesperson for American Values 2024, a Super PAC backing RFK Jr. (Yeah, it was always a fake pro-Trump campaign, as we now know).
- Anna Soroka: Lastly, there’s board member Anna Soroka, who is an advisor to Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, i.e., part of the land Russia stole from Ukraine. Pasechik is under sanction by the US government calling him the “Putin-appointed interim head of the former so-called Luhansk People’s Republic.”
Standard Kremlin Nonsense
The content created on Intelligencer is the standard nonsense we get from the Kremlin via most right-wing news sources and politicians these days: conspiracy theories about election fraud, vaccines, and the war in Ukraine.
Conclusion
When VP Harris said that Putin would have Donald Trump for lunch, she was clearly being quite reserved, to the point of absurdity really. The obvious truth of the matter is that Putin already ate Donald Trump, digested him, shat him out, and then Putin’s lapdogs ate that mess and regurgitated it back up to form the candidate we see today in the 2024 election.
