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  • 2021-01-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Did the Biden Administration Display the Russian Flag? (en)
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  • On Jan. 19, 2021, the night before U.S. President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day, the @MrReaganUSA Twitter account tweeted a picture of the National Mall. The person behind the account posted a message with an emoji of the flag of the Russian Federation: I don't know if the Biden administration is aware of this. But this is the Russian flag. No joke. The tweet ended with no joke, and some Twitter users who replied didn't seem to think it was a joke, either. That's actually the first thing I thought, wrote one person. Exactly what I thought last night when I saw the photo, replied another. However, the flag display did not hint at anything, despite what a third Twitter user said. The Biden administration did not display a Russian flag. Rather, a display of various flags appeared at a distance as stripes of many different colors stretching the length of the National Mall. Further, others on Twitter pointed out that you could just as easily find in that sea of colors other combinations that resembled the flags for France and the Netherlands, for example. NPR reported that the flags on the National Mall were part of the Field of Flags installation: This photograph of the National Mall showed Tennessee's mostly red flag in the foreground. Other state and territory flags followed into the distance near the Capitol. Most of the flags appeared in red, white, and blue colors: U.S. President Joe Biden's Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) also described the Field of Flags in a statement: The tweet from @MrReaganUSA, an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump, appeared to overlook or deflect from Trump's history with Russia. In August 2020, the Senate Intelligence Committee was led by Republicans. At the time, the committee issued its fifth and final report on Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It detailed the extent to which Trump campaign officials had involvement in the matter. The Associated Press reported on the Republican-led committee's findings: (en)
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