The man who oversees the Russia investigation thinks Americans are too ‘savvy’ for Russian ads to work

The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website October 26, 2017:

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein appears at the Global Cyber Security Summit in London this month. (Mary Turner/Reuters)

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein is in charge of overseeing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The U.S. intelligence community has said explicitly that it has no opinion on whether Russian interference affected the election.

But Rosenstein does — at least when it comes to the ads for which Russia paid.

Appearing on the “Target USA” podcast from Washington’s WTOP radio station, Rosenstein said he thought American voters were too “savvy” to be influenced by such ads.

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