Putin Pals Say Accused MAGA Media Stars Should Come to Russia for Protection
This week’s Department of Justice indictments of the employees of RT, Russia’s premiere state-controlled propaganda outlet, have been met with mockery and jeering in Moscow. Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief, posted a bevy of messages on her Telegram channel—and none of them sounded like denials.
In one of her first reactions on Telegram, Simonyan mocked the authorities for being so slow to catch up to RT’s nefarious activities in the United States. She wrote, “Ptooey, they finally woke up!”
The unsealed indictment alleged that prominent right-wing influencers like Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson were secretly funded by Russian state media employees to create favorable content.