danielpalos
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do abortionists complain about an ounce of prevention or just the right wing.The right wing has no moral or legal credibility to complain about less fortunate, immoral illegals.Yeah it’s a pointless argument not based on facts. I’m talking about both the Russian influence and Trumps retort pivot to the illegal votes. None of it can be substantiated so claiming such is just a waste of time. What we can do is focus on protecting against future efforts to illegally influence elections. That would be a conversation worth having.At this point does it really matter what it was meant for?Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey recently wrote an editorial for the Wall Street Journal that made some very logical arguments to support the idea that the Russian hacking and leaking was not meant to elect Trump but was meant to serve as a warning to Hillary. Mukasey argues, probably correctly, that the Russians, like most everyone else, believed that Hillary was going to win. Therefore, says Mukasey, they meddled and leaked in order to warn Hillary that they might have her e-mails, including some/all of her missing e-mails. An excerpt:
“Consider the Justice Department inspector general's report on the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of an unauthorized and vulnerable email server,” Mukasey wrote. “It found that the bureau had concluded the server could well have been penetrated without detection. Recall also that some of the people hacked by GRU [Russia’s military intelligence agency] agents were aware of that server and mentioned it in messages they sent, so that the Russians too were aware of it.”
Mukasey added: “There are some 30,000 emails that Mrs. Clinton did not turn over, on the claim that they were personal and involved such trivia as yoga routines and Chelsea's wedding. If they instead contained damaging information -- say, regarding Clinton Foundation fundraising -- the new president would have taken office in the shadow of a sword dangling from a string held by the Russians.”
Pointing to the indictment last week of 12 GRU agents, the former attorney general also suggested that Putin wanted U.S. intelligence services to discover Russian meddling in the election -- and that if he really wanted agents from Moscow to go undetected he would have used a far more capable source than the former Russian “special-forces types” that make up GRU. (Russian meddling in election meant as 'warning' to Clinton, former AG says)
This makes a lot of sense.
Because you have some Democrats going around claiming that the Russians tilted the election to Trump, that Trump would not have won without Russian interference. I doubt that the votes that the Russians influenced equaled the number of votes that illegals cast. Neither was enough to change the outcome of the election, but the illegal vote padded Hillary's popular vote total.
Neither do abortionist.