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“All who have never been the target of Russian propaganda. Their aim is to discredit powerful envoys and spread disinformation to mislead the public. Anyone who repeats this (intentionally or not) is simply a puppet of a propaganda machine,” he wrote J. Saki on Twitter on December 2.
He highlighted former Secretary of State, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.
Psaki wrote this after a photo appeared on social networks and in the media, in which he is with the then Secretary of State John Kerry, for whom he worked, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
The photo was also shared by Matt Wolking, a spokesman for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.
In the photo, J. Psaki is wearing a pink fur hat with a Soviet pentagonal star. The photo was taken in Paris during the negotiations on Syria.
USA Today newspaper advertises that the hat is a gift from the Russian delegation J.Psaki. Next, Kerry introduced Lavrov to “two big Idaho potatoes.”
Scanpix / AP Photo / John Kerry presents potatoes to Sergei Lavrov
Psaki’s photo of Maria Zakharova in a fur hat was shared in January 2014.
“The symmetrical response of the Russian delegation to the potatoes donated by the Americans is a hat for the official representative of the US State Department, J.Psaki.” Everyone is satisfied, “Zacharova wrote on Facebook.
This post was shared on Wednesday on a Facebook account at the Russian Foreign Ministry. “Times change, the stars remain,” says the photo.
There have been attacks in the past
In 2012-2014, M.FFaul, who served as the United States Ambassador to Russia, defended J.Psaki.
“The Russian media, controlled or friendly to Putin, attacked Jen Psaki with scandalous and disgusting disinformation as she told the truth about Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The attack on social media has been gruesome and at times intimidating. Stop this one. artificial scandal, ”wrote M.FFaul on Twitter.
The photo, which became popular on social media, was taken a couple of months before Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula.
J.Psaki, who served as a State Department spokesperson in 2013-2015 and criticized Russia, has repeatedly become a target of online trolls and bloggers, and their dealings with RT broadcaster journalists, funded by the Kremlin, have been tense. For example, in June 2014, RT published a list of “Psaki’s most embarrassing failures.”
Psaki later said that the attacks against her were “sexist”.
“Many people know that the Kremlin and the propaganda machine are trying to discredit many officials, including myself recently, no matter how stupid, because the United States supports a strong and democratic Ukraine,” Psaki said at the time.
“I found myself in good company because I am just one of many American officials, especially women, who have been targeted by Russian propaganda attacks. So I will not worry about that. I will accept this as a badge of honor,” Psaki said in June 2014.
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