# Washington Post: Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 25, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-post-russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/772945 "2016-11-25T03:41:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 502
**Author:** ![BrerRobert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@BrerRobert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrerRobert)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-post-russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/772945/502 "2016-12-23T21:50:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > And **Brer Bob?** “Rooting and voting for Trump”? Who on the left was in a position to vote for Trump? Are you going to put forth a fever-swamp conspiracy, lefties infiltrating the Republican primaries to push for Trump? Will this fairy tale have wizards and dragons? I like those. Are you kidding? Well, I mean, that appears to be all you do, which is confusing because I don’t think Lorne Michaels even reads this forum so I don’t know why you insist on auditioning here, but anyway what I mean is are you really unaware that some Dems were so sure that a Trump primary win guaranteed a Dem general victory that they voted for Trump in the primaries (many of which were OPEN, so no wizardly infiltration through fevered dragon fairy swamp blah blah nonsense required)? Really? > [@](#): > > And you offer us _John Oliver_ as a citation? I have this gnawing fear that you are not kidding. Oliver is a lefty who strongly urged Trump to run. You know, the exact thing I mentioned, that you asked for an example of. But hey, if you want something closer to home: > [@Trump's Republican primary campaign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/131): > > PLEASE don’t nominate Trump, Br’er Fox! We’re afraid to run against him! In skimming that thread I noticed that it is peppered with your smarmy self certain predictions, you should go back and revisit the 2015 elucidator, it would be a shame to have all of that impotent comic genius be completely wasted, perhaps your prior self could at least entertain your current self, while you wait for your call backs. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-post-russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/772945)._