Russian Operative Said ‘We Made America Great’ After Trump’s Win
- Agents for Russia uncorked champagne in 2016: Senate panel
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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media outside of the White House in Washington on Oct. 4, 2019.
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Kremlin-directed operatives opened champagne when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, according to a communication disclosed in a new Senate Intelligence Committee report outlining Russia’s sweeping social media efforts to help him win.
“We uncorked a tiny bottle of champagne ... took one gulp each and looked into each other’s eyes .... We uttered almost in unison: ‘We made America great,’” one operative at the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency said in the message obtained by the Republican-led committee.