What Russian scandal......WHAT DID RUSSIA DO? Specifically
ZRX1200 wrote:
Russians did several things that have been revealed by US intelligence agencies.
1) hacked Hillary's, Podesta's and DNC emails and gave them to Wikileaks, now considered a non-govt hostile intelligence agency. Info from emails was released methodically to cast negative light on her, Podesta and the Dems. Some of the info released that was supposedly real was in fact fake
2) developed botnets, designed to divert internet users looking for info on Hillary to websites they established that contained only negative info, some of which were fake/false stories
3) put "trolls" in place to disparage Hillary in political social media discussion sites
4) published numerous false news stories about Hillary and posted them on many political websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections This is what the intelligence people have revealed so far, primarily a disinformation campaign, but they have an on-going investigation. America must demand a complete and thorough investigation into any country's effort to interfere with our elections, especially one like Russia, that is hostile to our interests. We need to know what they did so that we can prevent future attacks.
Betcha France is going to delve into their last elections that Russia tried to influence at the last minute, trying to take advantage of a campaign moratorium rule to disparage Macron before election day. They may even ask the US for help.
Outside influence in our elections should be a non-partisan issue. I would hope that if Clinton had won and there was Chinese influence to help her, that the left would be supportive of the same sort of investigation that they are insisting we complete now, and that the right would be demanding.
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