New York Congressman Jerry Nadler is the head democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and wants to lead the democrats’ Impeachment effort.
That means convincing people that the Russians ran a significant disinformation campaign via American digital media companies.
But Tuesday a meeting of the House Judiciary committee may not have gone exactly as Mr. Nadler had planned. The witness was Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
NADLER: Does Google now know the full extent to which its online platforms were exploited by Russian actors in the election two years ago?
PICHAI: We have -- you know we undertook a very thorough investigation, and in 2016, we -- we now know that there were two main ad accounts linked to Russia, which -- which you know, advertised on Google for about $4,700 in advertising.
We also found other limited...
NADLER: Total of $4,700?
PICHAI: That’s right, which was, you know -- no amount is OK here, but we found limited activity, improper activity. We learned a lot from that and we have, you know, dramatically increased the protections we have around our election offerings.
Leading up to the current elections, we did -- we again found limited activity, both from the Internet Research Agency in Russia, as well as accounts linked to Iran.
Wow! The Russians , on an ad buy of less than $ 5,000, got Trump elected, while Hillary thew a cool $ 1 billion or so, (much of it donations to Clinton Foundation to help children) only to lose.
ROFL
Hey NADLER! Don’t get used to your Impeachment Czar crown just yet!