In NYC's Russian Enclaves, a Big 'Nyet' to Talk of Election Hacking

WNBC-TV ^ | December 21, 2016 | Alina Heineke

[2ndDivisionVet]

Clutching a cobbler's tool in his hand, Roman Gadayev defiantly lashed out against accusations that Russia meddled in the U.S. election to sway the vote to Donald Trump.

"Simply impossible," said the Kazakhstan native who runs a shoe repair shop near the Brighton Beach boardwalk. "This is something that only uneducated people can buy into."

Most Russian-speaking expatriates interviewed by The Associated Press this past week in Brooklyn's heavily ex-Soviet enclaves shrugged off a CIA assessment that Russia hacked the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's campaign boss to help Donald Trump, portraying it as nothing more than political sour grapes.

"Russia has nothing to do with this," Ludmila Bondar, a retired credit analyst who moved to America from Skvyra, Ukraine, 26 years ago, said in Russian. "People are the ones who have elected Trump."

Brighton Beach and adjacent Sheepshead Bay, which have become home to tens of thousands of Russian-speaking immigrants, are coincidentally where Donald Trump's father based a big part of his apartment-complex empire.

These enclaves along the Atlantic Ocean not far from the rides of Coney Island are also among the few corners of Trump country in overwhelmingly Democratic New York City. While the city overall went nearly 79 percent for Clinton in the presidential election, most precincts in the two neighborhoods voted "za Trampa," or for Trump, some as high as 80 percent....

[LeoWindhorse]

excellent - Russian Americans for Trump

[lapsus calami]

 

 

most precincts in the two neighborhoods voted "za Trampa," or for Trump, some as high as 80 percent.

 

A-Haaaaaaa! So, it WAS the Russkies after all

 

 

[OneHun]

"This is something that only uneducated people can buy into."

It is worth repeating every day loud and clear!!!!!

 

[elhombrelibre]

Kinda like the German Bund in 1940.

[2ndDivisionVet]

So you’re calling a group that voted for Don Trump at 80% a Nazi fifth column?

[kearnyirish2]

The “Russian hacking” nonsense was born when the recounts not only showed more votes for Trump, but started to expose fraud in inner cities. The enemedia has lied to Americans for eight years about our state of affairs, and when their candidate lost they had to find a scapegoat so history wouldn’t judge both her and Obama as incompetent, bad people.

100 years from now Obama will be canonized, and Trump will be demonized, by those who write our history books; I’d love to see how they explain why the latter followed the former into the White House (and how they fit St. Hillary into the mix). I suspect all of this theater being played out for us little people is to set the tone for that revision of history a century from now.

[seastay]

The democrats have praised communist Russia for decades , ted Kennedy ask for their help to win the presidency , they modeled healthcare and the auto bailouts after communist ideals. Obama voted communist party candidate in his younger years, and this election they supported hillary. So why now are they concerned about Russians meddling in the affairs of our country ? One theory is that this is a smokescreen projection of obamas own involvement with putin and the Russians on to trump , to divert public attention away from any suspicion that the upper democratic leadership have been puppets to Russia. While the Saudis owned the bushes, and the Saudis plan was to controll Iraq and Syria, using US troops, Obama instead sided with Iran giving them billions, lifting santions allowing them to partner with Russia to control iraq and Syria,, obama is the one being influenced by the Russians. , But if the public is tricked in believing that its Obama is the one standing up to the those dirty Russians for hacking our election, the public along with all the fake news hysteria are never going to believe the news when trumps admistrstrstion soon will uncover the real communist treason of barrack obama.

[dp0622]

I’m guessing there will be at least a few posts about how the commie sinister ruskies are out to get us.

And there will be some truth to that.

What these posters are missing is that the media didn’t give a flying #### before they found out they could use it to take shots at Trump.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Good for them. Their 70 year Soviet nightmare obviously focused their minds.

[lavaroise]

Good point . No one talks of illegals voting in CA as being hacking...