Expert says Russians targeted GOP candidates
An expert says Russian-directed disinformation campaigns targeted all the Republican presidential candidates.
During a hearing on Russian meddling in the election, Clint Watts of the Foreign Policy Research Institute told Sen. Marco Rubio that his presidential campaign was targeted.
After the hearing before the Senate intelligence committee, Watts told reporters that all the GOP candidates were targeted.
And he says the Russians continue to interfere in US politics, specifically targeting House Speaker Paul Ryan of late. Watts told reporters that trolling networks his research institute monitors were disseminating propaganda about dissension in the ranks of the Republican Party regarding the vote for Ryan as speaker of the House.
