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By February 2016, internal IRA documents referred to support for the Trump Campaign and opposition to candidate Clinton. For example, directions to IRA operators   "Main idea: Use any opportunity to criticize Hillary [Clinton] and the rest (except Sanders and Trump - we support them)."

The focus on the U.S. presidential campaign continued throughout 2016. In 2016 internal  reviewing the IRA-controlled Facebook group "Secured Borders," the