I reached Harry Miller on his cell phone as he drove near his Erie, Pennsylvania, home.

“Am I in the Mueller report?” Miller asked. “I didn’t read it yet. But if my name’s in it, I don’t care.”

The retiree is a part-time Boynton Beach Leisureville resident who was paid $500 two summers ago for the Home Depot fencing supplies he used to convert the bed of his pickup truck to a makeshift chain-link jail cell for a Jupiter woman wearing a Hillary Clinton mask.

Miller thought the guy who contacted him from the “Being Patriotic” social media site was a fellow American wanting to support the candidacy of Donald Trump. Same thing goes with Anne Marie Thomas, the Jupiter woman, who was wired a MoneyGram from what she thought were American college students from the site "March for Trump" so she could buy her Clinton mask.

But Miller and Thomas were just pawns in the election-meddling schemes of the Internet Research Agency, a Russian government operation that “conducted social media operations targeted at large U.S. audiences with the goal of sowing discord in the U.S. political system,” according to the newly released Mueller report.

By the summer of 2016, the Russian operation had become strong backers of Trump through deceptive postings and accounts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, the report said.

As part of the plan, Russian operatives decided to use unwitting Americans to participate in a “flash mob” of support for Trump in about 20 Florida cities at 2 p.m. on the same day, Aug. 20, 2016.

One of those cities was West Palm Beach, where Miller’s truck-jail and Thomas’ Hillary mask became part of a Russian-scripted rally outside the Cheesecake Factory at the shopping center formerly known as CityPlace.

Miller had no idea he was taking instructions and being paid by Russians to build the Hillary jail until he was questioned by FBI agents more than a year later.

“How would I know the guy was Russian?” Miller told me last year. “He had an accent, but I thought he was one of those Muslims, and I figured, he was a new immigrant and I’d work with him because he wants to be involved.”

Mueller’s 448-page report makes reference to efforts by Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) to trick Americans into participating in Russian-generated campaign events for Trump.

“As the IRA’s online audience became larger, the IRA tracked U.S. persons with whom they communicated and had successfully tasked (with tasks ranging from organizing rallies to taking pictures with certain political messages),” the report read.

On the bottom of Page 32 in the first volume of the report, in Footnote No. 94, it mentions a discussion about the Russians paying for construction supplies a few days before the CityPlace event. But a lot of it is blacked out as a redaction, citing it as a “personal privacy” matter for the American involved.

“I think you got redacted,” I told Miller on Thursday afternoon.

It turns out that Mueller’s concern for Miller’s privacy was unnecessary. Miller’s proud of his role.

“I’ll take money from anybody,” he said.

And as for Hillary Clinton?

“She’s going to be arrested, any day now,” Miller said, before going on to talk at length about her “leaky server.”

The way Miller sees it, the Mueller investigation was going after the wrong person.

“I know there’s no collusion,” Miller said. “I dealt with the Russians, not Trump. You know that Trump had nothing to do with the Russians.”

Foreign governments interested in meddling in our upcoming 2020 presidential election will be happy to know that Miller still has an active Twitter account and his Russian-paid jail cell.

He figured the jail would come in handy again.

“I’m going to get the cage out for the next election,” Miller said. “I don’t know who they’re going to run against Trump. Maybe that monkey, Bernie.”

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