Posted on 02/08/2018 11:45:29 AM PST by Lazamataz
Former president George W. Bush said he believes Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, departing from President Trump, who has been skeptical of intelligence agencies’ findings that the Kremlin had interfered to help him win.
“There’s pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled. Whether they affected the outcome is another question,” the 43rd president said at a summit in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. He added: “It’s problematic that a foreign nation is involved in our election system. Our democracy is only as good as people trust the results.”
Bush has been critical of Russia, slamming it for working to “exploit our country’s divisions.”
“The Russian government has made a project of turning Americans against each other,” Bush said during a forum in New York in October.
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Yeah. I suppose. Would probably do it again, against the choices at the time. Just complaining about OUR choices in the Bush family. Filthy swamp creatures.
I was against Bush in the 2000 GOP primary, based on meeting him in July 1999. I posted about it here but the archives don't go back that far.
As I predicted here on 9/13/01, he decided to fight a Vietnam war in South Asia, and most of our political problems today arise out of that massive failure.
He's got some nerve to be speaking up now.
The Russians have created a lot of fake social media accounts that trashed Clinton. It was direct meddling.
But so what? The Russians didn’t keep Hillary from campaigning in WI, PA, and MI. That’s what cost her the election.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks Laz. Hey, sometimes you drain the swamp, sometimes the swamp drains you. The real reason Porgy's still mad is because Donald Trump popped Jeb like a balloon, or maybe just an inflated condom, and did it on national TV, destroying the media narrative of Bush-Clinton rematch in the process.
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