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Framing the Russia issue

The core question is: did Russia determine the outcome of the election, through anything it did? 

The obvious answer is no.  The Left avoids this clear and unavoidable conclusion by speaking in generic, non-specific, weaselly ways.  They speak of MASSIVE interference.  They speak of clear evidence of collusion (there is none, by the way), they speak of highly orchestrated campaigns, etc.

Russia had some Facebook profiles supporting Trump (and Bernie and Jill Stein, by the way), some Facebook ads almost no one saw, and they–we are told, and I am still skeptical–successfully hacked John Podesta, and revealed, through Wikileaks, how the Democrats were cheating to win the Primary for Hillary.  This does not seem to have mattered much even to Bernie voters, who dutifully did their part voting against Trump, to “avoid fascism”, despite the fact that election tampering is pretty much exactly what fascism looks like, and that Hillary was already showing every possible autocratic tendency, including chronic mendacity, and an absolute and even reckless disregard for the law.

So look at your chosen media source through this prism.  Ask yourself if the language they are using is warranted by the evidence.  Or are they choosing language intended specifically to obscure the true facts, and sway your political opinion in a particular way?

And I will recollect for you the Democrat Dirty Tricks team which was uncovered by James O’Keefe, and how their senior on-the-ground operative Scott Foval tweeted “Hillary just lost the election” when he was fired.  That is my recollection in any event.  I can’t find the story.

In any event, that four senior DNC staffers were fired after the expose seems clear enough, and that they engaged in organized voter fraud and dirty tricks for many years seems equally true.

Actually, looking around, I came across this, which I had forgotten, if I ever knew it: https://mountainrepublic.net/2016/10/27/scott-foval-reveals-who-was-really-behind-the-romney-47-video/