Posted on 09/21/2017 5:44:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
On her current book tour, Hillary Clinton is still blaming the Russians (among others) for her unexpected defeat in last year's presidential election. She remains sold on a conspiracy theory that Donald Trump successfully colluded with Russian President Vladimir Putin to rig the election in Trump's favor.
But allegations that a president won an election due to foreign collusion have been lodged by losers of elections throughout history. Some of the charges may have had a kernel of truth, but it has never been proven that foreign tampering changed the outcome of an election.
In 2012, then-President Barack Obama inadvertently left his mic on during a meeting with outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Obama seemed to be reassuring the Russians that if they would just behave (i.e., give Obama "space") during his re-election campaign, Obama would have "more flexibility" on Russian demands for the U.S. to drop its plans for an Eastern European missile defense system.
Medvedev's successor, Vladimir Putin, did stay quiet for most of 2012. Obama did renege on earlier American promises of missile defense in Eastern Europe. And Obama did win re-election.
But that said, Obama would have defeated Mitt Romney anyway, even without an informal understanding with Russia.
In 2004, there were accusations that the George W. Bush administration had struck a deal with the Saudi Royal family whereby the Saudis would pump more oil, leading to lower U.S. gas prices. Bush supposedly wanted to take credit for helping American motorists and therefore enhance his re-election bid.
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Why we don’t continue to remind the world that it was the Lion of the Sinate....Edward M. Kennedy, that actually tried to get the Russians to interfere with the 84 election!
Great point.
And those who are up in arms about possible Russian interference, don’t care that Obama used Fed money to try to throw the Israeli elections?? What hypocrisy!
Unlike “homegrown” Democrat voter fraud.....
Indeed
Dammit!!
She’s a-sposed ta WIN!!
They promised!
they PROMISED!
THEY PROMISED!
She had da drapes all measured ‘en EVERYTHING, too!!!
YOU DEPLORABLES IS MEAN MEAN MEAN!
So it looks like the Russian narrative was really created to validate Samantha Powers actions in unmasking and wiretapping Trump campaign officials.
F’n Sessions.
If she would have won, we wouldn't have heard about the Russians at all.
Absolutely correct; the media would never report on her na levo deals with Putin.
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