I am so tired of the stories about how the Russians influenced our last Presidential election.
Does anyone on the forum really believe the Russians influenced the election and if they did WHO did they influence to change their votes?
1) The Russians almost certainly hacked the DNC, Hillary's rogue email server, and just about every other source for high value political information on the U.S. that they possibly could. The DNC and Hillary's server were laughably easy targets and I wouldn't be suprised if the Chinese, NK, other hostile nation states, and perhaps some random hackers were able to do this as well.
2) Wikileaks may, or may not, have gotten the information from Russia. It's possible that Russia used front-people to facilitate the leak to Wikileaks even if Wikileaks doesn't know it. But, it doesn't really matter.
3) There's not one scintilla of evidence that Trump or the Trump campaign conspired with the Russians on anything. NONE. All of this is just one of many smear jobs by Dems, Lefitsts, and the so called self-described "Resistance". They're throwing spaghetti at the wall hoping something will stick. The smart ones know that he can't be driven from office with this nonsense, but they're hoping to undermine the President's perception of legitimacy in order to cripple his agenda and undermine his political power.
4) There's zero evidence that anything the Russians did had any discernible impact on the election results.
There was no actual hacking of the votes by Russians, or at least no evidence that they even attempted a hack, much less pulled one off.
Most probably the only substantive fraud that occurred was facilitated by Democrats.
(As with Bernie Sanders)
5) The goal of Russia, as well as the Soviets before them is not to get a particular person elected, but to disrupt the political process and sow doubts about the process to undermine the political system.
Like everyone else they almost certainly thought that Hillary would win and probably wanted her to win because they almost certainly have all those compromising emails from Hillary's server that the American people don't have access to--perfect for subtle blackmail.
They thought she'd win and their goal was to undermine her legitimacy and presidency--to weaken her to create a strategic advantage for themselves. This is their modus operandi.
The ironic part of all this is that the Dems and the Left are working to do for the Russians what the Russians couldn't do themselves: Undermine the legitimacy of a U.S. president.
