Russia’s “Secret” Payments to Right Wing Influencers with Pete Strzok

The Lincoln Project

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Host Reed Galen is joined by former FBI Agent Peter Strzok to discuss Russian interference in the 2016 and 2020 elections with a particular focus on the recent revelation that Russia is funding right-wing influencers to spread disinformation. Russia's tactics have evolved from creating fake personas on social media to finding existing influencers who align with their narratives. Strzok also addresses the legal liability of these influencers and the ongoing investigation into Russian interference. Plus, the need for transparency when combating disinformation campaigns, the potential dangers/strategies of the Trump administration if he were to win the election, and the risk of unchecked power. For more from Pete, be sure to check out Cleanup on Aisle 45, and pick up his book, Compromised. For more from Reed Galen subscribe to The Home Front. If you want to personally join the fight to save our nation’s democracy, visit JoinTheUnion.us and sign up today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone it's me, Reed Galing.
0:02.2	As you may have noticed, I don't host the Lincoln Project podcast anymore,
0:06.0	but I'm so excited to share with you my brand new show, The Home Front.
0:10.0	On the Home Front, you'll get the same incisive discourse about the pro-democracy movement from the smartest, most driven people in the fight today.
0:18.0	If you're listening to this episode on the Lincoln Project Podcast channel, I invite you to subscribe to the home front on Apple,
0:24.3	Spotify or wherever you get your shows. I want to say thank you to all of you in the
0:28.4	pro-democracy movement and I look forward to continuing our American journey
0:32.0	together and now the home front.
0:35.8	Welcome to the home front. I'm your host, Reed Gailen. Today I'm joined by Pete Strock,
0:41.3	former deputy assistant director of the Counter Intelligence Division of the FBI.
0:46.0	While at the Bureau, he led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
0:51.6	and briefly worked on Robert Mueller's special counsel
0:54.4	investigation into any links or coordination between Donald Trump's
0:57.8	presidential campaign and the Russian government. Since his time at the
1:01.3	Bureau he's now an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, the Walsh School of Foreign Service, a New York Times best-selling author for his book, Compromised, and his co-host of the podcast Clean Up on Isle 45. I like that, that Pete today he's coming to us from
1:14.2	Washington DC pep welcome back hey breed thanks very much okay so let's dive right
1:20.0	into your background in particular pe. So this last week or so the Department of Justice
1:26.7	released an affidavit by an FBI agent outlining how Russia, the Kremlin was basically funneling and funding right-wing
1:39.7	you know talking heads such as Tim Poole Benny Johnson and others through a shell
1:46.4	company they set up tenant media I believe they called it and these guys
1:51.5	Pete were getting paid a100,000 a week to parrot Russian talking points.
1:58.1	And there's one in particular of this guy, Tim Poole, who has this weird beanie fetish because he's bald and Tim if you're
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