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I am even more confused by this comment. How is this propaganda?

It's a press release from their "Office of Public Affairs" that would actually impede their ability to bring the people listed to trial.

Edit: Just because the public announcement may be construed as propaganda, it doesn't mean that the charges were necessarily wholly made-up.

The case for it being propaganda goes something like this: Barr's DoJ is making this charge publicly released so that the US can appear to be "tough on Russia." Despite Trump failing to condemn Navalny's Novichok poisoning or taking action regarding the intel on Russian blood-bounties on US soldiers. This would follow the pattern of other pro-Trump (painting him as a victim, or strong-man where convenient) politicized DoJ announcements such as 9 ballots being found in the trash, including noting that 7 of them were cast for Trump.

https://www.axios.com/trump-russia-bounties-taliban-putin-ca... https://www.axios.com/trump-alexei-navalny-poisoning-russia-... https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/revised-statement-us-at...

That seems a pretty wide scope for propaganda. Then anything that puts Trump in a good light becomes propaganda, even if it is a legitimate good thing that happened in his administration, and even if it has nothing to do with Trump. This whole Russiagate thing is super confusing on both sides.

Yeah idk if it'd be my first conclusion. But I think that's the propaganda line of reasoning. No proof that it's propaganda, but there is a sliver of plausibility.

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