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were the Russians running around the rust belt changing people's minds?
Yes.
1. Established personal contact with Americans perceived as sympathetic to Moscow;
2. Hacked the Democratic National Committee email servers and then gave the material to WikiLeaks;
3. Amplified the propaganda value of the leaked emails with a disinformation campaign waged predominantly on Facebook and Twitter, in an effort to use automated bots to spread fake news and pro-Trump agitprop;
4. Breached US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to
target and manipulate voters in future elections.
Evidence mounts Russia meddled in US election - Business Insider
so we went from hacking ;stealing ,colluding ,to trying to influence . That's what a year and half investigation buys us these days . And the Ruskies changed the outcome of the election by sending a clown car of operatives (dubbed the Illegals )like Anna Chapman ;who actually registered a burner phone to '99 Fake Street' .We're to believe they ran hacks out of Russian offices in the military and secret service without even attempting to disguise the source or ever the key strokes. They did all this agiprop ;hacking infiltration of voting machines on a shoe string budget . Cozy Bear ,Fuzzy Bear ,Guciffer 2 ,all got into an unprotected DNC server and fed information to Wikileaks .Does this even pass the smell test ? Meanwhile what did US intel do about it ? They infiltrated and investigated the Trump campaign ,got very questionable FISA warrants , hired a former Brit spy with Russian contacts to concoct a salacious and unverified dossier to use to get these warrants . Oh but wait ….. the emperor told Putin to "cut it out " . And what did they get out of the DNC server ? Proof that it was Evita's campaign that was rigging the election against her primary opponent .
So why would the Russians want to interfere in the US election ? Could it be American involvement in the Rose Revolution in Georgia, the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan ...or maybe the release of the Panama papers during Putin's reelection bid ? I'm not a believer in moral equivalence . But we know that American operatives were on the streets when Viktor Yanukovych was ousted . We know the emperor sent operatives into Israel to try to change the outcome of the Netanyahu win.
Let's assume the Russians really did all this ...are you saying the gullible American yahoos let Russian influence be the deciding factor rather than the growing populist wave that was a reaction to 8 years of the emperor's reign ?
Read the book lest the Dems make the same mistake in 2020 .
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076YZC99L...ng=UTF8&btkr=1