There have been a lot of new discoveries recently surrounding the Alabama Senate Election between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones last year.

Last week, the New York Times reported on some of the dirty tactics that Democrats used to swing the vote in their favor.

From the New York Times,

“The project’s operators created a Facebook page on which they posed as conservative Alabamians, using it to try to divide Republicans and even to endorse a write-in candidate to draw votes from Mr. Moore,” The Times continued. “It involved a scheme to link the Moore campaign to thousands of Russian accounts that suddenly began following the Republican candidate on Twitter, a development that drew national media attention.”

“We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” the report added.

Well, now more has been discovered surrounding the scandal.

One of the big groups behind everything is American Engagement Technologies (AET) which is run by Mikey Dickerson. AET led in the effort to portray Roy Moore’s bid for the Senate as being supported by the Kremlin. Trying to link Russia to the Alabama election in the same way they’ve been trying to link Russia to President Trump.

It’s also been discovered that liberal billionaire and co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, was a big contributor to American Engagement Technologies donating $750,000 to the group.

According to Fox News,

Liberal Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman issued an apology on Wednesday for funding a group that falsely tried to give an impression the Russian government was supporting Alabama Republican Roy Moore in last year’s Senate election against now-Sen. Doug Jones.

Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, is one of Silicon Valley’s top donors to the Democratic campaigns and PACs. In the last election cycle he donated $7 million to Democratic groups, though his money also pours into non-traditional groups that aren’t mandated to report their funding and often operate in the shadows.

Hoffman has issued an apology stating, “I find the tactics that have been recently reported highly disturbing. For that reason, I am embarrassed by my failure to track AET – the organization I did support – more diligently as it made its own decisions to perhaps fund projects that I would reject.”

But what is the most interesting is who is behind the scenes. Mikey Dickerson is actually an appointee from former President Barack Obama. Dickerson was behind fixing the Healthcare.gov website after Obama blew a Billion dollars on that deal. So we’ve now got to ask ourselves, how much of a hand did Obama play in not only the Alabama Senate election, but the general election as well?

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