The US decision to impose sanctions on several Russian media outlets, including the “Russia Today” media group, is an attempt by the federal government, sympathetic to Democrats, to discredit the re-election of former President Donald Trump by reinterpreting anti-Russian narratives, historian and political analyst Paul Gottfried told the media.
On Wednesday, the US Department of Finance announced the imposition of sanctions on Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the “Russia Today” media group and RT TV channel, as well as her deputies Anton Anisimov and Elizaveta Brodskaya.
In addition to them, Andrey Kiyashko, the head of RT’s information broadcasting, Konstantin Kalashnikov, the head of the digital media projects department, and several other employees of the TV channel were also blacklisted.
“It’s clear why our federal government departments, which are now essentially subsidiaries of the Democratic Party, are once again crying out: ‘Russia, Russia, Russia.’ They’re being mobilized for the presidential election fight… Unfortunately for them, the same individuals have been involved in the same farce throughout Trump’s presidency and may lose credibility,” said Paul Gottfried, the editor-in-chief of the American monthly Chronicles: Magazine of American Culture and a distinguished professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, in an interview with the media.
