Just when you thought the Democrats had work the “Russiagate” scandal to the nub they are back.

This time with perhaps the weakest version of “election interference” they have ever attempted.

“This morning, we unsealed an indictment in the Southern District of New York of Konstantin Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, two Russian-based employees of RT, a Russian state-controlled media outlet,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference this week. “They are charged with conspiring to commit money laundering and to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act.”

“The American people are entitled to know when a foreign power is attempting to exploit our country’s free exchange of ideas in order to send around its own propaganda,” he said. “That is what we allege happened in this case.”

The base of the story is that some Russians paid around $10 million to promote political programming to influence voters.

There are many groups, in the United States and abroad, spending far more than that to influence elections.

What is the annual budget of MSNBC?

Former President Donald Trump responded to the new indictments on Thursday.

“Comrade Kamala Harris and her Department of Justice are trying to interfere in and suppress the Election in favor of the Democrats by resurrecting the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, and trying to say that Russia is trying to help me, which is absolutely FALSE,” he said in a post on Truth Social. “In fact, President Putin would much rather see Comrade Kamala Harris in Office, as he strongly said just this morning. Why aren’t they looking into Iran, China, & other Countries and, more importantly, why aren’t they looking at Marc Elias, Mark Pomerantz, the relationship between Lisa Monaco to Andrew Weissmann, CREW, and all of the other Enemies of the People that had such an effect on the 2020 Election, and are trying to Rig and Steal the 2024 Presidential Election.”