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Russians created an anti-Hillary Clinton video game called “Hilltendo” and tried to make it go viral in the weeks before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, CNN has determined through a review of internet records and computer code.

It’s one of the strangest ways yet discovered that Russians tried to influence the American election. But it’s indicative of just how creative Russian internet trolls were willing to be.

The evidence is embedded in the website’s code, internet records, the methodical campaign to make Hilltendo gain popularity online, and a Russian software developer’s ties to the Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency.

Jonathon Morgan, whose company New Knowledge tracks the spread of misinformation online, said the game is an example of how sophisticated and expansive Russian propaganda is and why it’s difficult for any one social media platform to solve the problem.

The game consisted of three levels, starting with this one: “Help Hillary delete as many classified emails as possible before she is caught.” Players controlled a Hillary Clinton character who sits on a missile and eliminates emails, all while avoiding FBI agents.

The next level asked: “How much money can Hillary get from the Arab states?” At the top of the screen, nations’ flags drop money. At the bottom, the Clinton character holds a basket to collect the cash as it falls.

The final level challenged users to “Help Hillary throw the Constitution as far as possible,” and it included caricatures of then-President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton.

The game’s website had Facebook and Google tracking software embedded on it. This software would have made it possible for the game’s creators to identify people who played the game and later target them with advertising elsewhere on the Web, including on Facebook, potentially to direct them to disinformation campaigns.

Hilltendo would have been a relatively simple game to build, said Brian Moore, a New York-based developer who built the viral anti-Republican video game “GOP Arcade.”

“You could get this out in as quickly as 12 hours. It’s a very simple game. They could have found a template to build the game on. The animations are pretty stock. It’s not anything too insane,” he told CNN. “The art is the hardest part. It’s pretty polished.”

How CNN made the Russian connection

Hilltendo.com, like any website, is kept online by a computer network with an Internet Protocol address. Many websites can be randomly grouped together on the same IP address — 17 different websites that have nothing to do with anti-American Russian activity once had the IP address eventually used by Hilltendo.

But records examined by cybersecurity expert Paul Vixie and CNN appear to show that, beginning in May 2016, the hosting company dedicated this IP address to a single client. From that point on, the only new websites assigned to that address were Hilltendo.com, PlayWithHillary.com, and BlackFist.pro. BlackFist.pro has previously been shown to have been run by the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-linked corporation indicted by U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller last month.

A President that consistently throws mean insults at elected officials and the media via twitter.

The ignoramuses who are Trump’s “Base” love it when he uses profanity, racism and rudeness in his duties as Prez. The tobacco chewing, pickup driving trailer park trash that is his base don’t care about style and Presidential decor and manners. This is their man. Straight shooter who acts and talks like them. Viva Trump!

President Trump told friends at his pricey Mar-a-Lago club they “all just got a lot richer” after the passage of new tax overhaul legislation, CBS News reported Sunday. Trump reportedly made the remarks to friends dining at the exclusive club on Friday night, shortly after he signed the controversial bill into law. The president has repeatedly assured that the GOP bill would bring tax relief to the middle class, though critics say parts of the legislation would disproportionately benefit the wealthy. The White House on Saturday stood by its assertion that the legislation would help the middle class, despite the president’s reported comments at Mar-a-Lago, where members pay $200,000 in initiation fees and $14,000 in annual dues.

This presidency never ceases to entertain. Lets just hope the world survives it!

Trump trashes outgoing Republican senator in public falling out

Trump’s slams on Corker come days after the senator made public comments criticizing him. The senator responded to Trump’s tweets with an insult later in the morning, calling the White House “an adult day care center” in a Twitter post.
And he wasn’t done there.
In remarks to The New York Times published on Sunday night, Corker said Trump was treating the presidency like “a reality show,” making reckless threats against other countries that put the United States “on the path to World War III.”
Corker also said Trump acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something,” and that alarmed the senator, according to the Times.
“He concerns me,” Corker told the newspaper. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”
And the risks Trump’s behavior presents also concern some of his top officials, who endeavor daily to protect the President from his own instincts, the Times reported.

The current White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is almost as elusive as her predecessor Sean ‘Spicey’ Spicer was.

Getting a concise answer with pertinent information out of her is like trying to get blood out of a stone.  Her answers are vague, elusive and very abrupt.  However, when you are trying to communicate the cacophony of confusion coming out of the Trump circus, being clear as dishwater is one of the only ways a press secretary can stay sane.

Oh my, does this guy like to tweet.