On this topic. Would one, or more, of you on the left please tell us exactly what the Russians did that impacted our election? Give us the details. Where were votes changed? How many? How did they do it?
If your claim is that leaking the proof of corruption within and between the Hillary campaign, the DNC, and the media changed the outcome, fine. Now tell us why the voters were not entitled to know those facts. Next prove that wikileaks got the info from the Russians.
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Where were votes changed? How many? How did they do it?
The division they put and amplified between Bernie voters and Clinton voters, through their face book ads, their bots and trolls on various social media, their fake Americans organizing rallies in contentious States,
the fake news stories they planted, on the same day of the wikileak emails, pushing false narratives about the emails....and then pushing this fake news through social media and the right wing media and Bernie following media and blogs..
As example, in May of 2016, after Hillary already had technically won, in the delegates but also in the popular vote where Bernie could no longer catch her
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workers at the DNC, were bitching about it and creating among themselves things they could do to get Bernie to concede the win...which was wrong in a way...
But these workers also knew the facts, and the facts were, Bernie could no longer win, there was no chance of him catching up,
AND most importantly, the longer the Primary winner has to campaign before the convention and prepare for the battle in the election process against the opponent, the better the chance of the candidate winning the election, and in getting the two DNC camps together....to heal...
What the Russians did, was release a News Story about these emails among DNC workers and implied they took place the previous year, and these workers were trying to hurt Bernie early on in the primary, and claimed the DNC was back stabbing Bernie all along and on and on and on and on and on....causing and amplifying division in the Democratic campaigns... this lead to some chaos at their convention, some of the Bernie camp walking out, wasserman resigning....
AND, Bernie voters come election time sat home, and did not vote, or voted for a third party candidate, and some may have even voted for Trump to keep Hillary from getting the job they hated her so much at this point.
So the emails were accurate, but the propaganda put out by the Russians and, their right wing allies in the media that spread it, along with the bots, trolls and faux American bloggers planted in the Bernie Camp side too, was fake news, a little bit of truth with a whole lot of false narratives and spin.
And yes, knowing how the DNC worked behind the scenes was both boring and interesting, but it was also personal and their private doings so, that part makes it wrong for me to read them....they were ILLEGALLY GOTTEN...does THAT not mean something to you?
AND in addition to that, it was an unfair situation, we did NOT get to see all of the emails of Manafort and Kelly Ann like those of Podestas and we did not get to see the turmoil going on in the RNC with Trump leading the primaries and the division in the RNC and their thoughts on it.
THIS MADE THE PLAYING FIELD unlevel, unfair, PERIOD.
So if the Russians had released the emails of the RNC and the campaign managers of Trump,
THEN AND ONLY THEN, would the public had been fully informed.
And these things are only a smidgen of what the Russians did!!!!