From Senate hearing focusing on Russian interference in the election. Can't get the video to embed, but this seems important.
Clint Watts, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, says President Trump used active Russian measures against his opponents during the 2016 election.
[Edited to add details]: He lists dates and events in which fake news stories run by Sputnik News, were picked up by the Trump campaign and quoted (without being sourced, of course).
Rigged election, voter fraud, Cruz isn't a citizen, wiretap of Trump Tower. All stories pushed hard by Trump, all originated in Russia during his campaign in order to assist his campaign. That’s active involvement in our election.
Twitter is going bananas, but so far, mainstream media blackout.
"follow the trail of dead Russians."
Another piece of his testimony. Will share more as it comes out.
That bit closes by him saying that shady Russian news organizations continue to tweet conspiracy theories at Trump, which then lets him quote them or re-tweet them. It is not clear whether he knows he is Putin’s puppet or not. It is clear to me now though that all this “fake news” stuff that he’s been spewing...he’s referring to these Russian news outlets as “real news,” not just Fox/Breitbart. This is where he’s getting his information that is superior to the intel he gets from his own agencies. Things are starting to make a little more sense.