Hillary Clinton in Piety & Power, by Tom LoBianco

On Principles & Values: Russian hackers paid internet trolls to attend Trump rallies

But the summer of 2016, American intelligence had picked up on some troubling actions by Putin and his operators in Russia. Behind the scenes, Russian hackers and operatives had been hard at work the years before laying the groundwork for an attack on the very roots of American democracy--an army of internet trolls, working out of Moscow, not only spread propaganda and disinformation online, but also actively paid Americans to protest.

Russians even set up real American bank accounts and actively recruited Americans to perform for them. The troll farm paid one man to build a wooden cage, and another woman to dress up in a Hillary Clinton costume--and then she rode in the cage at a pro-Trump rally and chanted "lock her up!"

On Principles & Values: October Surprise: campaign emails from Russia via WikiLeaks

Meanwhile, within a half an hour of the news breaking, WikiLeaks began posting thousands of e-mails from the account of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The e-mails had been stolen in a hack that Democratic cybersecurity experts traced to Russia--it seemed awfully convenient that when the biggest "October Surprise " to land in modern American politics dropped on the head of Trump, a half hour later an equally startling surprise landed at the feet of the Clinton campaign. It was whiplash for the American public.