Political Quotes

“This is from volume I, page 6. ``Summer 2016. Russian outreach to the Trump campaign continued into the summer of 2016, as candidate Trump was becoming the presumptive Republican nominee for President. On June 9, 2016, for example, a Russian lawyer met with senior Trump campaign officials Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, and campaign chairman Paul Manafort to deliver what the email proposing the meeting had described as `official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary.' '' {time} 1645 ``The materials were offered to Trump Jr. as `part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump.' The written communications setting up the meeting showed that the campaign anticipated receiving information from Russia that could assist candidate Trump's electoral prospects, but the Russian lawyer's presentation did not provide such information.'' Testimony of Colin Stretch, the general counsel of Facebook. This is in volume I, page 15. `` `We estimate that roughly 29 million people were served content in their news feeds directly from the IRA's,'' ' and that stands for the Internet Research Agency's, `` `80,000 posts over the 2 years.' '' The IRA is the Russian organization in which some 30 persons have been indicted. `` `Posts from these pages were also shared, liked, and followed by people on Facebook, and, as a result, three times more people may have been exposed to a story that originated from the Russian operation.…”