quash wrote:Please don't tell me you unironically believe the Russian government was responsible for Trump's victory.
I see that the past month or two has done nothing to dilute your seemingly endless supply of "if you support funding NASA you must believe in UFOs, right?" Kellyanne Conway bullshit.
Imagining, as one always must, that you were actually attempting to argue in good faith instead of just being a bitch, you'd acknowledge - there's no way you're not keenly aware - that the intelligence report
openly stated that it
didn't even attempt to determine whether Russia's meddling actually tilted the election in Trump's favor, only that it happened and that this was, in fact, its intention. And yeah,
that's news in and of itself, no matter how reliably flunkies like you can be expected to accuse anyone
treating it as such of
"bias" against your chosen champion. Y'know, as he sits in obedient silence as his
establishment enablers
abjectly refuse to even
attempt to make him keep his promises concerning Social Security and Medicare.
As for where the purported dirt came from, does the report extrapolate on that? The "continuing exchange of information" between Team Trump and Team Putin sticks out (for more reasons than one, not like you care, of course), but feel free to point me towards a more official accounting of how it happened if I missed it.
By the way,
please tell me everyone saw Trump's response to the reporter who
dared to bring up his tax returns again (I'm still waiting to hear what those investigators in Hawaii found, myself
); it's his version of Romney's "it's not my job to worry about
those people" canard, and we didn't even need a hidden camera to hear it!
Opus131 wrote:Putin hacked into the Podesta emails (the hack in question was figuring out that his password was... password)
Further, Podesta was using a Gmail account, and Google doesn’t allow users to make their passwords "password." Go try for yourself.
Exhaustively researched, as is always the case with you!
He basically steered the election in favor of Trump by doing genuine investigative work which resulted in better informed voters.
I'll bet both you and your candidate of choice would have the exact same view of him and his actions if he'd stolen and released Trump's tax returns instead.
As for the
vital importance of the emails, heavens to Betsy, next you'll be telling me that the RNC internally preferred Jeb Bush to Carly Fiorina or something; get Putin back in here,
the people must know! 
" rather than trying to throw some real dirt on the guy.
