Yep. Even in the “best case” scenario where none of the “talent” at Tenet was being directly told what to say, the disinfo people being like “Hey big dog, love what you’re doing. Here’s an ungodly amount of money to keep doing it,” isn’t functionally any different. It only means they potentially didn’t directly commit the crime of being an unregistered foreign agent or whatever the wording is.
They just found somebody prominent that was already saying most of what they wanted to pay someone directly to say and basically got them for a discount because they didn’t need to convince them to say it.
also he was one of the right wing influencers paid by russia to spread disinformation via tenet media
Yep. Even in the “best case” scenario where none of the “talent” at Tenet was being directly told what to say, the disinfo people being like “Hey big dog, love what you’re doing. Here’s an ungodly amount of money to keep doing it,” isn’t functionally any different. It only means they potentially didn’t directly commit the crime of being an unregistered foreign agent or whatever the wording is.
They just found somebody prominent that was already saying most of what they wanted to pay someone directly to say and basically got them for a discount because they didn’t need to convince them to say it.