After Mollie Tibbetts was gruesomely murdered by a vicious animal who was likely an illegal immigrant, the liberal left rushed to make excuses and sweep this tragedy under the rug.

When that failed and public anger persisted, they used their predictable fall-back: It's the Rooskies!

The Independent recently published an article about a report claiming that the Rooskies are using Mollie Tibbets' death to distract from the criminal cases of former Trump associated Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen:

"Russian accounts were pushing out stories focusing on Ms Tibbetts' alleged murderer, according to an analysis conducted by the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD)…

The bipartisan group, which, according to its website, "develops comprehensive strategies to defend against, deter and raise the costs on Russian and other state actors' efforts to undermine democracy and democratic institutions", has tracked Kremlin-oriented influence operations on Twitter since August 2017."