Some final thoughts on the Tim Pool/Benny Johnson thing: Even if you take their argument at face value — that they didn't know they were pawns of foreign influence — it's EXACTLY what all of the disinfo reporting was trying to say: foreign influence campaigns are real, complex, happening.

The Kremlin determined that the views those people espoused were harmful to America. Those people, Americans, even without adopting Russia's talking points, were being paid to hurt America.

And they earned a ton of money doing it. Isn’t that like spying?

This can be tracked as far back as 2016 and the Mueller Report that Barr killed---it was loaded with collusion between Manafort and other Trump underlings and the Russians.

Instead of listening to the threat of foreign influence, they made entire careers out of denying it, calling it the "censorship industrial complex," saying I was personally evil and should be thrown in jail for reporting about the very thing that duped them. Tim would post stuff like this.

Also, given how much the victim angle is being pushed, I would not at all be shocked if further information shows that certain influencers did indeed know they were getting RT money.

Do you think in a moment of quiet reflection they will think to themselves, “now why would a foreign nation want me to pay me to say this shit?” Um, doubt it.😂

I will wager you a free paper subscription to The Onion that these are faaaar from your final thoughts on the Tim Pool/Benny Johnson thing.

Moreover—the enemies of the United States **demonstrably** believed that boosting those people would hurt the United States.

Also, he has to be super stupid.

At the very very very least, these people who claimed to know all the background conspiratorial stuff are very bad at knowing all the background conspiratorial stuff.