'Butter knife to a gun fight': Disinfo researcher claims nefarious link with Trump and Musk

20 December 2024

With a Saturday, December 21 deadline just around the corner, the United States' federal government appeared to be heading for a shutdown.

Bills that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) supported failed to pass, and some Democrats believed that President-elect Donald Trump and Tesla/Space-X CEO Elon Musk were causing chaos in the House.

In a December 20 post on X, formerly Twitter, journalist Dave Troy accused "Moscow" of promoting dysfunction on Capitol Hill.

Troy tweeted, "Folks think Musk and Trump are engaged in politics, but this is a military operation being executed out of Moscow. If you are playing politics right now, you literally have brought a butter knife to a gun fight."

In a separate tweet posted the same day, Troy argued that Republicans go out of their way to cause "dysfunction."

The Washington Post's Drew Harwell, on X, slammed Republicans who, he said, "make light" of the hardships a shutdown would cause — including Fox News' Sean Hannity and radio host Ben Shapiro, who said a shutdown is "not that big a deal."

In response, Troy tweeted, "The dysfunction and cruelty are the goal. It's a feature not a bug, etc."

December 20 was not the first time Troy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin of encouraging political instability in the United States.

On December 13, Troy tweeted an article he wrote for America2.News and wrote."

Troy posted, "EXCLUSIVE: The Kremlin's 'Project Russia' poses a potent framework for mobilizing illiberal forces against the United States and its allies — and it's all but unknown to Western analysts. We must act to counter it."

On December 19, Democratic strategist Jon Cooper tweeted, "Wow! One GOP lobbyist just told me he thinks Elon is really the one who’s calling the shots — not Trump." And Troy responded, "lol no s—t.'

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