EXCERPT:
DILANIAN: “Hey, good morning, Willie. Good morning, everyone. Yeah. It’s a remarkable scheme. $10 million is how much the Justice Department says was funneled into this one Tennessee company that’s been identified as tenant media. These guys were making a lot of money. And when I asked on a DoJ background call, what was the impact here? How many Americans did this propaganda reach? They said, look, it’s really hard to gauge, but like this company in a short time amassed 16 million views for its videos on YouTube. So it had an effect. And some experts are saying they only need one or two videos to go viral to have a real impact on American politics. So what’s very clear from the indictment, despite, as you said, people calling this part of the Russia hoax, but you read the indictment, it’s very clear there’s a mountain of evidence that RT and these Russian executives were funneling money secretly to these American conservatives who founded this organization in Tennessee. And then they were then creating videos and taking their cues from RT, particularly on things like the Russian line on the Ukraine war, and pumping it out to the American public without mentioning that this was Russian propaganda. And now the Americans in this scheme are not charged. It’s the two Russians who are in Russia. But the U.S. actually acted more broadly yesterday beyond just this indictment. And they seized 32 Internet domains that have been used by the Russians for propaganda. They also sanctioned other people, including the chief editor of RT, who’s a longtime Putin crony.”