The democrats apparently won the spin contest for the wikileaks fallout showing that the DNC cheated both Bernie and Trump, and yet Trump gets blamed for "Russian Interference" throwing him the election causing him to be "illegitimate"?!
Debbie Wasserman Schultz was fired for cheating Bernie
Donna Brazille was fired for cheating Trump
Yet Trump is illegitimate because the democrats cheated and got caught???
Lets do a poll, which is worse, cheating or getting caught?
What the DNC did was unethical and something they payed dearly for. What Putin did was
influencing an election to get a specific candidate in office by using ILLEGAL not just unethical methods.
A foreign power influenced the election, something that by it's very nature raises a serious national security question. Why would Putin risk the diplomatic backlash that would result from this act. There aren't very many possible answers to that question which are good for the US. So the difference between both acts. One unethical and internal party politics. And the second one, unethical, illegal and globally significant.
I still don't believe that what Putin did had any effect on the election, both camps were entrenched and my basic premise is that this was simply a "change" election, and Trump was the obvious change candidate. So unless you can prove otherwise, there was no Russian "influence" I'm saying that other factors decided the election, such as:
1. Illegal server, missing emails, FBI should have indicted, pay-to-play, Benghazi, gun control, progressive agenda, and my favorite, if Russia is so bad why did she sell US uranium and pocket $145,000,000?
2. Trump wants: a war on drugs, illegals/wall, end unfair trade, law and order, CHANGE, replace Obamacare, see his agenda, and if Russia really wanted to sink Hillary they would have released the 30,000 classified emails hacked from her bathroom server.
3. As for your "national security question" due to the Russian hacking of the DNC, I'm calling bullshit. China hacked the F-35 plans and 21,000,000 HR records and there was ZERO fallout or sanctions. The DNC should have bought a Norton Security Suite instead of fireworks and there would have been no hacking. The blowup over the Russian hack is bullshit politics, otherwise China would be sanctioned too.
I could list many more factors that decided the 2016 election, but the point being that voters have MANY factors to influence their votes and the DNC hack wasn't as serious as her other failures. I'm still betting that the Trump team will not let this go and eventually the CIA and FBI will reach different conclusions.