The Justice Department's bill of indictment against various Russians who are alleged to have worked to influence the 2016 election includes some of the posts they supposedly made on social media outlets. Today, I'd like to talk a bit about one of them, an Instagram post. It reads in relevant part, "[A] particular hype and hatred for Trump is misleading the people and forcing Blacks to vote Killary." The use of "Killary" was the result of accurate research. Trump's hardcore supporters used it often to suggest that Hillary Clinton was a killer -- a charge going back at least to the discovery of Vince Foster's body in July of 1993. The phrase "particular hype and hatred" seems odd, though. The intended meaning presumably is "certain lies by hateful people directed at Trump are misleading the people" etc. But it takes some time to figure that out. After all, in English "hype" does not necessarily refer to l...