Posted on 07/08/2018 7:40:10 PM PDT by oblomov
On June 14, 2016, the Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had broken into the Democratic National Committee’s files and gained access to its research on Donald Trump. A political world already numbed by Trump’s astonishing rise barely took notice. News reports quoted experts who suggested the Russians merely wanted more information about Trump to inform their foreign-policy dealings. By that point, Russia was already broadcasting its strong preference for Trump through the media. Yet when news of the hacking broke, nobody raised the faintest suspicions that Russia wished to alter the outcome of the election, let alone that Trump or anybody connected with him might have been in cahoots with a foreign power. It was a third-rate cyberburglary. Nothing to see here.
The unfolding of the Russia scandal has been like walking into a dark cavern. Every step reveals the cave runs deeper than we thought, and after each one, as we wonder how far it goes, our imaginations are circumscribed by the steps we have already taken. The cavern might go just a little farther, we presume, but probably not much farther. And since trying to discern the size and shape of the scandal is an exercise in uncertainty, we focus our attention on the most likely outcome, which is that the story goes a little deeper than what we have already discovered. Say, that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort told their candidate about the meeting they held at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer after they were promised dirt on Hillary Clinton; and that Trump and Kushner have some shady Russian investments; and that some of Trump’s advisers made some promises about lifting sanctions.
But what if that’s wrong? What if we’re still standing closer to the mouth of the cave than the end?
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jonathan chait. all I needed to see.
He’s sort of the NYC version of Mark Morford.
J Chait is a buffoon and a liar.
So $50,000 in Facebook ads can defeat Hillary’s $2 billion dollars? Why doesn’t every politician in the West sign these folks up for their campaigns?
and just how did Russia plot to elect Trump?? I don’t think they did anything to help him. Their plan is and has always been to weaken the USA and for Russia to surpass the USA at several levels. Their primarily focus has been to cause confusion, distrust and mayhem within the USA so that the US government can not function. That they believe is the best way to weaken their adversary, the USA.
And Russia has been unbelievably successful in their goal. But not because of Trump. No, with the help of the left and the home grown anarchists.
His handlers? Are they behind record low black/Hispanic unemployment? Tax cuts? Fair Trade?, pulling out of NAFTA?, tughteng screws in illegal immigration? advocating for the 2nd Amendment,? ending Obamacare,? appointing Gorsuch,
Liberals are paranoid psychopaths.
His handlers? Are they behind record low black/Hispanic unemployment? Tax cuts? Fair Trade?, pulling out of NAFTA?, tughteng screws in illegal immigration? advocating for the 2nd Amendment,? ending Obamacare,? appointing Gorsuch,
Liberals are paranoid psychopaths.
Amazing!
So says the fishwrap that covered up the holocaust/starvation by Stalin in Ukraine and actually received a Pulitzer Prize for it. This is the paper that refuses to connect Clinton and Russia with the Uranium deal and thought it was cool with Obama’s “flexibility”.
So...the Russians can rig an American election...but can’t rig a World Cup soccer game they host in their own country?
Is there any ‘journalist’ who is more corrupt and deceitful than Jonathan Chait?
I wonder who his handlers are...
Beuller? Beuller? Anyone?
allegations of hacking, the FIB did no forensic investigation of the DNC server. The DNC refused access.
Meanwhile what of the Pakistani hacking of the congressional Democrats’ server?
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