{"id":374145,"date":"2018-08-20T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-hysteria-undercuts-our-values\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:08:24","slug":"russia-hysteria-undercuts-our-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-hysteria-undercuts-our-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Hysteria Undercuts Our Values"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The mainstream media and out-of-touch politicians and bureaucrats want us to believe that the Cold War never ended, it\u2019s a crime to talk with a Russian, and we should all be fearful of any Russians here in the U.S. Apparently our $21 trillion national debt, lack of border security, and the threat of radical Islamic terrorism pale in comparison to the grave threat posed by Russia.<\/p>\n

This is yet another example of the disconnect between Beltway talking heads and the American people. Hard-working Americans \u2014 including constituents in my Kentucky district \u2014 care about jobs, paying the bills, putting food on the table, and leaving this country a better place for their children. The alleged \u201cvast Russian conspiracy\u201d harped upon by the Democrats and media since the election of President Trump is simply not a concern of normal Americans.<\/p>\n

To date, \u201cproof\u201d of a Russian conspiracy to interfere in U.S. elections includes only Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s indictments of 13 Russian nationals and 12 Russian intelligence officers. The Russian nationals are accused of identity theft that allowed them to create fake social media accounts, and the 12 Russian intelligence officers are alleged to have hacked into the computers of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign prior to the 2016 election. Most importantly, all indictments fail to allege that a single U.S. vote was changed.
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Unfortunately, what began as only Russophobic rhetoric seems to have turned into a witch hunt, as President Trump calls it.<\/p>\n

For example, the current hysteria may have motivated the recent arrest and indictment of Maria Butina, a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The mainstream media and out-of-touch politicians and bureaucrats want us to believe that the Cold War never ended, it\u2019s a crime to talk with a Russian, and we should all be fearful of any Russians here in the U.S. Apparently our $21 trillion national debt, lack of border security, and the threat of radical Islamic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}