CalExit Movement, Calling For California’s Secession From U.S., Tied To Russian Government, Justice Dept. Says
Newly uncovered evidence from the “CalExit” movement, which seeks to have California withdraw from union, shows that its leaders may have been planted by foreign countries wanting to sow division in the U.S. Recently released documents show that a Russian citizen, who goes by Aleksandr Ionov, gave $500 worth of digital tokens to an organizer of the CalExit movement, Louis Marinelli. After giving the funds to the organizer, Ionov wrote to a person associated with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and spoke about the “turmoil” in the United States. “There you go,” Ionov said to the FSB ...