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Susan Rice Claims Without Evidence That Russia Could Be Funding Riots

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Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice claimed without evidence on Sunday the Russian government could be funding protests across the U.S. in the wake of the police-involved death of George Floyd.

“I would bet base and my experience,” Rice said, “this is right out of the Russian playbook as well.”

“I would not be surprised to learn that they have fomented some of these extremists on both sides using social media,” Rice told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

“I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they are funding it in some way, shape or form.”

Rice was responding to President Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to designate Antifa, the far left-wing activist group, a domestic terror organization.

Violent protests and looting have erupted in multiple U.S. cities over the death of Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, in Minneapolis. Video footage showed Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nearly 10 minutes prior to his death. Chauvin was arrested Friday and charged with third-degree murder.

Looting and rioting has ensued across the U.S. in the wake of Floyd’s tragic death. At least three people have been fatally shot during protests in Oakland, Indianapolis and Detroit.

Rice also pushed the unfounded theory that white supremacists and right-wing groups are behind some of the social discord.

“To designate antifa a terrorist organization, fine, but let’s also focus on the right-wing terrorists supremacists he called in the past very fine people. We have a problem here, Wolf,” she said.

That idea gained traction on Saturday, when government officials in Minnesota asserted that right-wing groups were responsible for most of the violence in Minneapolis.

“We are now confronting white supremacists, members of organized crime, out of state instigators, and possibly even foreign actors to destroy and destabilize our city and our region,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said on Saturday.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer did not correct Rice’s theories, and instead agreed with the premise of point about Russia’s involvement in the social unrest.

“You’re absolutely right on the foreign interference,” said Blitzer, “because we know for decades the Russians, when it was the Soviet Union, the communists, they’ve oftentimes tried to embarrass the United States by promoting the racial divide in our country.”

“But what you’re suggesting, ambassador, is that they’re still trying to do that? Is that what you’re saying?”

“Well, we see it all the time,” Rice said.

“We’ve seen it for years, and, frankly, every day on social media, where they take any divisive painful issue whether it’s immigration, whether it’s gay rights, whether it’s gun violence, and always racism, and they play on both sides.”

Rice’s remarks are not the first time she’s floated an unfounded theory to explain an outbreak of violence that has led to the death of several Americans.

In multiple interviews on Sept. 15, 2012, Rice falsely attributed an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi to a video about the Islamic prophet Mohammad. Four Americans were killed in the terrorist attacks.

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5 Comments

  1. She knows it’s the Klingons and not the Russians! Her memory hasn’t been the shame since Ben ghazi. Poor girl…she longs for the feeling of power.

  2. We don’t have to worry about Russia, because America has Obama, George Soros, Zuckerberg, Bezos, the owner of Twitter, and Hollywood giving financial support to these Domestic Terrorist Looters and Rioters, due to their wanting America Destroyed, to suit themselves!

  3. For Stinky Stuff and Giggles, let us say she is right and Russia or China or both are funding the riots.

    That still means we have enough STUPID ASS, GULLIBLE, MINDLESS ZOMBIES of Snowflake age. That would rather follow the ANTI-AMERICAN planted inciters seeking mass destruction of business areas that support the inner city poor. Than to stop think and respect their own and the country that has given them so much.

    I will support a peaceful Protesters right to protest, whether I agree with their cause or not.
    However, once a peaceful Protester turns to rioter, looter, arsonist and/or starts physical assaulting innocent persons and 1st responders.

    Then, I totally support the” Stand Your Ground Laws” and Rights also.

    Heck I would support the President issuing a nation order, just like Mayor Daley’s (Chicago Super Democrat) issued back in April 1968. Mayor Richard J. Daley ordered police “to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand . . . and . . . to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city.”

    It quickly put a stop to his riot and culled a large number of Leftest Anti-USA Radical organizers.

  4. Picture this. Those looters and rioters are not wearing jeans, t-shirts, facemasks and backpacks. They’re wearing uniforms and are carrying weapons to keep you from trying to stop them. Now what?

  5. What a buffoon…not buying that excuse anymore. It’s like the race card .way overplayed. Glad she’s Gone.. And who cares what this has been has to say anyhow. It’s like my comment here. Like a grain of sand on the beach.

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