Hillary Clinton Calls for Prosecution of Americans Who Use ‘Russian Talking Points’ on MSNBC

Former first lady and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton called for the criminal prosecution of Americans who use “Russian talking points” during an appearance on MSNBC Monday night.

After detailing the Department of Justice’s recent crackdown on Russian influence operations — including its funding of Tenet Media, which funneled Russian money to Lauren Chen , Tim Pool, Benny Johnson , and Dave Rubin , among others — host Rachel Maddow asked Clinton if she feels “like the U.S. government is sort of, starting to figure out how to do this and taking this seriously enough? Or do you still think there’s a far distance to go?”

“I think there’s a far distance to go. I applaud the actions taken by the Justice Department and the State Department. I think that they’re very important. But truly, we are just at the beginning of uncovering everything that Russia, but not just Russia, other countries, have done and are doing to influence our election,” replied Clinton . “They are using Americans, both those who are witting and willing and those who are unwitting, and are just so surprised they’re getting, you know, $400,000 a week or $100,000 a podcast to parrot Kremlin propaganda. And we know from what even Republicans have said, the chairs of the Intelligence Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee and other Republicans who are currently in office have said that Republicans go to the floor of the Congress and they parrot Russian talking points.”

She continued:

So I think it’s important to indict the Russians, just as [Robert] Mueller indicted a lot of Russians who were engaged in direct election interference and boosting Trump back in 2016. But I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda. And whether they should be civilly, or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence because the Russians are unlikely, except in a very few cases, to ever stand trial in the United States. You know, they’re not going to be going to a country where they can be extradited or even returning to the United States unless they are very foolish. So I think we need to uncover all of the connections and make it very clear that you can vote however you want. But we are not going to let adversaries, whether it is Russia, China, Iran or anybody else, basically try to influence Americans as to how we should vote in picking our leaders.

Watch above via MSNBC.