In spite of the fact that most, if not all, of the professional intelligence community has no doubt that the Russians attempted to influence the 2016 election of Trump, he and his toadies continue to deny it. The evidence is overwhelming--the earth is not flat.
https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/russian-election-hacking
That there was some sort of something may be fact. Trouble is, it's irrelevant to anything worthwhile. All countries do it, any time there is an election.
ReplyDeleteRussian "meddling" pales to insignificance compared to our suborning the elected government of Ukraine at a cost to the US taxpayer of some five billion dollars.
The US has a track record of meddling in Central and South America as well as in the Mideast and Europe--and Russia via NGOs.
What's going on now is a bunch of whining over an ineffective meddle.
Putin didn't make Trump win. The US government's "business as usual" finally made Joe Sixpack irate enough to "throw the bastards out".
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Every time I hear "Russia influenced the 2016 election", it makes me feel complicit that I helped put Trump in the White House. I guess Americans who voted for Trump aren't suppose to influence the presidential outcome either. Dang! If I had only known that rule ahead of time. Sorry Hillary. Guess we all pulled the rug out from under her. After all, how could these Americans possibly do this alone without Ivan helping to pull the lever. Give me a break!
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