being patriotic
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Gardner’s statement used by Russian trolls in 2015
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Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner was a tool of Russian trolls as they laid the groundwork for the 2016 presidential campaign, the left-leaning Colorado Times Recorder website reported this week. Researcher and advocacy communications pro Erik Maulbetsch found that the fake news site with the ironic name Being Patriotic used Gardner’s 2015 statement about an FBI…