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We've gone through the 25-page report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), nearly half of which discusses RT's effects on the 2016 presidential election"by serving as a platform for Kremlin messaging to Russian and international audiences."
RT began "openly supporting President-elect Trump's candidacy" during the primaries, according to the ODNI. Meanwhile, RT's coverage sought to "denigrate" Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and "harm her electability and potential presidency."
There's a lot of rehashing of old allegations, but the document doesn't seem to include much in the way of specifics about our coverage.
Embarrassing as it sounds, top US spies apparently are also not aware of the Russian date format. The report cites a July 4 interview with RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan published in Kommersant, though the interview was actually published on April 7, 2012. Apparently, the authors were not aware that in Russia, dates are usually listed in DD.MM.YYYY format rather than MM.DD.YYYY. Did they skip their Russian classes?
So we decided to do their jobs for them.
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