by Frank Holmes, reporter
The mass media spent four years warning about “Russia meddling” in U.S. elections, but stunning new evidence shows that Russia, China, and Iran are running an under-the-radar global propaganda campaign about the coronavirus — and they’re targeting them at President Donald Trump.
And it benefits former Vice President Joe Biden in the upcoming November election.
China alone has paid for millions of anti-American messages, which social media outlets have never flagged as coming from Beijing.
So where is Robert Mueller now?
The disinformation blitz is so enormous that experts say they have no idea of the full size of the three nations’ online efforts, which have already influenced millions of Americans.
Like alleged 2016 foreign meddling, U.S. intelligence says these online lies also originate in Russia — and are targeted at Trump.
The “Kremlin-sponsored” stories pinned the spread of the Wuhan virus on the United States.
Beginning in January, Russian agents began to “seed the disinformation space” with concocted tales that “the virus was created by Americans,” according to U.S. Special Envoy Lea Gabrielle, who heads the CIA’s anti-propaganda agency.
Russian outlets said the virus was actually a biological weapon cooked up by the U.S. military or Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
As soon as the illness—which has caused more than 89,000 deaths worldwide—took off, China started ramping up its propaganda machine with the same message.
2/2 CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation! pic.twitter.com/vYNZRFPWo3
— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) March 12, 2020
Three official Chinese media outlets alone—Xinhua, China Central Television and the Global Times—have brought millions of ads on social media to shift the blame to Trump.
The Chinese Communists have even run stories in three languages: English, Chinese, and Arabic.
The Chinese Deep State is “engaged in an all-out aggressive campaign to try to reshape the global narrative” and create “an alternate reality,” Gabrielle told The Washington Times.
She warned that they want to “turn the crisis into a news story about the supremacy of the Chinese Communist Party as opposed to democratic systems that have allegedly mishandled the crisis.”
Beijing’s agents have rolled out “basically a ‘China good, everyone else bad’ narrative,” she said.
And their ads have one target over everyone else: Trump.
The state-sponsored propaganda has “depicted Mr Trump as misguided and racist,” The Telegraph reported.
“Trump’s disruption to China has severe consequences,” one Chinese ad says.
Soon Iran, which has been hard hit by both the health pandemic and by Trump canceling Barack Obama’s sweetheart nuclear deal, piled on.
Blaming Trump for the coronavrus is “basically a convergence of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation operations,” Gabrielle said.
These hostile intelligence targeted the false stories to users of Facebook and social media, where they’ve been seen “millions of times,” according to an investigation by the British newspaper The Telegraph.
What’s more, Facebook let the anti-American lies go unchecked.
The online platform “missed some ads that should have been classified as political,” according to the Telegraph. Other ads ran in countries that don’t ask social media to do anything about foreign political ads.
Where is Democratic Party’s outrage over “foreign interference” in our elections?
Anti-American countries have also spent a fortune on social media in the past to try to force Trump out of office.
During the 2018 midterm elections, when the Democrats promised impeachment, Iran engaged in “significant anti-Trump messaging” on Facebook and Twitter, according to FireEye Intelligence. Both platforms were eventually shamed into deleting hundreds of phony accounts “masquerading as American liberals supportive of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.”
It’s not hard to see why China wants Joe Biden or another Democrat in the White House. Donald Trump is the first president since Nixon to put the screws to the world’s largest Communist country.
Just this year, he sent out orders through the Justice Department that every single one of the country’s 94 U.S. attorney’s districts is to bring a case against China for espionage.
They shouldn’t have any problem finding cases, since the DOJ says 80% percent of all economic espionage cases involve China.
“From the time he rode down the escalator at Trump Tower, President Trump made clear there would be a new sheriff in town when it comes to dealing with China,” said Christian conservative activist Ralph Reed.
It looks like China, Iran, and Russia want the old sheriff back.
Why do you think they kept silent—and the mainstream media refused to report—China going all-in to support Joe Biden?
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”