Dems accelerate election security push after Trump comments (the Russians are coming - again)

AP News ^ | 6/14/19 | MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO

[Dick Bachert]

[jazminerose]

The last thing any dem wants is a fair and honest election.

[bray]

So are they going to propose voter ID?

[exDemMom]

Even though the nation’s intelligence agencies said from early 2017 that it was clear Russia tried to influence the 2016 election in favor of Trump, Republicans who led both chambers did not move comprehensive legislation to address the issue.

So, the Russians influenced the election in favor of Trump by failing to give Hillary the level of assistance she needed to win?

In reality, as I am sure the author of this screed knows, that is not what the intel assessment was at all. The assessment was that the Russians were attempting to interfere in the electoral process, which is not even close to the author’s claim at all. Yes, Russian bots posted messages on forums meant to influence voters. Yes, bot (not necessarily Russian) messages on forums were 40% pro-Trump. Yes, Russian actors did approach the Trump campaign, sometimes at the behest of the Hillary campaign, to attempt to establish influence. No doubt, these attempts stemmed from their assessment that Hillary was likely to lose, and they wanted to ensure the same level of influence over the American executive branch that they held during the Obama administration. What none of these facts add up to is that Trump in any way cooperated with Russia.

This amounts to another example of how the media takes individual sound bites and weaves them into something that no one ever said, expecting that their audience is too stupid and inattentive to recognize the actual basis of the sound bites. Sadly, a significant portion of their audience is as stupid as the mainstream media judges them to be.