Trump Now Says He Accepts U.S. Intelligence Reports on Russian Election Meddling

New York Times ^ | July 17, 2018 | Mark Landler and Maggie Haberman

[Shethink13]

Can someone, ANYONE tell me just what exactly this “Russian meddling’’ was, particularly? What exactly were they supposed to have done?

YES!!! Thank you!!!

I've been screaming at the TV and radio for days about this. Today I had an epiphany and I really think I have most of the answer to all of the "Russia" hype.

1) If what they're referring to is Russia "hacking" into the DNC/Hillary e-mails - it's not really meddling in the election it's basically spy vs spy stuff that has been going on for eternity.

The hacks would be an attempt to get dirt on the predicted victor in the election in order to be able to use it at a future date.

Thus the meddling would come in as the "insurance policy" (quotes are deliberate) to aid the predicted outcome.

In other words, WHY IS THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE RUSSIAN MEDDLING WAS SUCCESSFUL????!!!!!

Why couldn't it be that they did try to meddle and help HILLARY get elected? Trump won despite the attempt to help defeat him.

And how convenient now that Rosenstein says the results of the election were not affected by the meddling. Yeah - because Trump was elected in spite of it. Now if the truth comes out, they can say "no harm done, Trump won - can't we just move on and forget about all this".

It sickens me.

[TChad]

To me, "hacking an election" means hacking into an election database and changing vote totals. That did not happen.

Instead, the hacking (or insider data theft) just educated voters about the ugly things that went on behind the curtains at the DNC.

Leftists have collectively lost their minds over a little voter education.

[Drew68]

Still, the optics were damming.

To who?

[papertyger]

With the way the Intelligence Services, Democrat Party, Rino Republicans, or Main Stream News Media has behaved since President Trump was elected, were any of them to call me by name, I’d check my license to make sure I was me.

[NobleFree]

“The sentence should have been ‘I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia,’ sort of a double negative,”

It's never a good idea to refrain from avoiding double negatives.

[Bommer]

No offense, but Trump could declassify and humiliate Rosenstien and Muller as well as the democraps and there is not a damn thing either side could do be cause he is within his rights. Declassify all the crap due to lack of CIA and FBI transparency. No one could touch him without sparking an American incumbent slaughter this fall.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t disagree with that.

I haven’t looked at it as much as you have, but it may be a good idea.