“President [Vladimir] Putin and the Russian security services operate like a super PAC,” Russia expert and former National Security Council member Fiona Hill testified during former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment proceeding. “They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political opposition research and false narratives.”

Hill, a scholar at the liberal Brookings Institution, testified how Russian agencies “deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political opposition research and false narratives.”