RT editor-in-chief admits secret operations in US aren’t going anywhere

The editor-in-chief of Russia Today (RT), a Russian-run media network barred from operating in the United States, admitted the company is still running secret projects in the U.S. and the West. In a snippet from a Russian television program shared on the social media platform X , Margarita Simonyan acknowledged that the Kremlin directly ordered RT's projects.

"We can't shut up and leave," Simonyan said. "Our motherland hasn't given us the order to retreat. All of us are soldiers. They've scared themselves with talk of a covert empire. All of us are Putin's foot soldiers. They won't be able to shut us up for the aforementioned reason, we obey orders from the Kremlin."

Simonyan claimed that what they are doing will remain a secret and only be revealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice recently announced the indictment of two RT employees related to alleged efforts by Russia to spread disinformation in the United States during the 2024 election cycle.

Simonyan is also among the Russian media managers sanctioned by the DOJ for alleged election interference efforts.

Guests on the Russian state television show also mocked former President Donald Trump's reaction to Putin's apparent tongue-in-cheek endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris as the guest noted and cited Putin's remark on her "infectious" laugh .

"I knew Putin," Trump said on Saturday, Sept. 7. "I knew him well, and you know, he endorsed, I don't know if you saw the other day, he endorsed Kamala. He endorsed Kamala. I was very offended by that. I wonder why he endorsed Kamala. No, he's a chess player. He endorsed Kamala. Should I... should I be upset about that, no? Was it done with a smile? I think it was done maybe with a smile. I don't know. Who the hell knows?"

Host Vladimir Solovyov, a well-known Russian media figure, said he believed that Trump took genuine offense to Putin's endorsement.

"In the U.S., they think we care about the elections," Solovyov said . "Idiots, we care about your civil war! May you, political dirtbags, kill one another. You are pathetic and laughable. Honestly speaking, I was a bit disheartened, unless Trump is joking."

U.S. National Security Spokesperson John Kirby did not find the ordeal "laughable" at all. He said that Putin "ought to stop talking about our elections, period."

U.S. intelligence previously revealed Russia's disinformation campaign appears to be favoring Trump in the election. However, Iran has reportedly been involved in attempting to sway U.S. public opinion in favor of Harris.

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