squidley said:
Gnudz said:
1) Russian intelligence agencies, under Putin's orders, hacked into a political party's computers and stole emails and information.
2) Those Russian agencies then slowly released the most embarrassing information slowly over weeks (beginning on the day of the Access Hollywood tape's release), thus keeping "Hillary's E-mails" in the news daily.
3) Those same Russian agencies also spent millions of dollars to spread disinformation and propaganda on social media.
4) Trump won the electoral college by only 80,000 votes in three states.
5) In order to be successful, Putin's efforts would only need to change a few minds while discouraging others against even bothering to vote.
6) There are numerous known examples where members of Trump's campaign attempted to get damaging info on Clinton directly from Russian sources, most notably at the Trump Tower meeting attended by Don Jr., Kushner, and Manafort. The Russians were more than willing to meet with any of them.
All of that counts as meddling.
However unmeasurable it may be, Putin's meddling had some effect on the outcome of the election. Granted, it was probably Comey's announcements regarding Clinton's emails that swung the most voters against Hillary, but many voters conflated the two issues and believed, wrongly, that the emails released by Wikipedia were the same ones being investigated by the FBI. The two issues propelled each other in a way by keeping Hillary's emails in the nightly news, increasing the effect each would have otherwise had on the electorate.
I guess those who don't care about any of the above need to ask themselves: How much of our country's sovereignty are you willing to cede to Vladimir Putin? 0.2%, which is the margin by which Trump won Michigan? 0.7%, the margin by which he won Pennsylvania? 0.8%, as in Wisconsin? And what If Putin decides to support the socialist in the next election, then what percentage of the vote are you willing to cede?
If a foreign dictator's efforts swung the votes of 2 people out of a thousand in Michigan, I'd say that's a problem that needs fixing, no?
The only American in this whole sordid mess who did anything, you know .....ILLEGAL .....is Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As Obama's Secretary of State Hillary started using a new personal Email server. Hillary wanted to sell off 20% of Americsan uranium assets to Uranium One, a Russian-owned company. She started using this server to ensure the required Obama administration signatories that their communications with Hillary could not be traced. Hillary also used the personal server for official classified State Department communications.
That is ....ILLEGAL.
With the 2016 presidential election approaching some Russians hacked into Hillary's persoonal server. They started using the information. HellOoooo....... That's why doing what Hillary did is ILLEGAL.
Donald Trump got wind that Russia might provide information about Hillary's ILLEGAL activities. A couple of Trump's people met brefly with Russian officials to excplore the posibilities.
It turns out that Russia was offering no such deal.
Did Russians use Hillary's communications against her in the election? Why the fck should anyone care? If it happened then Hillary reaped what Hillary sewed.
Story over.
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Thank you for proving my point.
A lot of really misinformed people think it was Clinton's personal server that was hacked. It was not. Hillary's personal server was never hacked into even though Trump asked the Russian intelligence agencies to try and do so. Clinton's server appears to be one of the few used by Democrats that wasn't hacked.
Those misinformed voters conflated Clinton's use of a personal server with the embarrassing emails stolen from the DNC, John Podesta, and other Democratic Party officials. They are two separate issues. The slow leakage of those emails combined with Comey's repeated public announcements, kept the word "emails" in the news and many uninformed voters conflated the two issues.
Americans who side with Putin's use of his intelligence agencies to weaponize information stolen from their fellow Americans are traitors. Plain and simple. They've chosen to support a murderous KGB dictator over their own fellow Americans. That's what traitors do.
As for all your crazy Clinton conspiracy theories, which have nothing to do with the Trump/Russia investigation, they are now making you some very stylish hats: