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Russian meddling in U.S. election backfiring on Putin, hurting Trump
The Washington Post ^ | August 23, 2016 | James Hohmann

Posted on 08/28/2016 4:00:50 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Eight years ago this month, Barack Obama’s high command became very worried after Russia invaded Georgia.

The first-term senator, then 47, had no meaningful national security experience, a liability Hillary Clinton had highlighted throughout the Democratic primaries. And he happened to be vacationing in Hawaii.

Campaigning in Pennsylvania, John McCain recounted a phone call he had just had with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. "Today, we are all Georgians,” the hawkish war hero said, drawing cheers from the crowd of several thousand.

The Obama team was worried about losing voters of Eastern European descent as a result of McCain's hard-line rhetoric on Russia. There are lots of Polish Americans, Ukrainian Americans and Lithuanian Americans who live in swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Many came to the United States to escape the Iron Curtain.

Now the script is completely reversed. Those voters for whom McCain fought so hard in 2008 are still out there. They normally would be very inclined to vote for someone like Trump — on paper, they look just like his core supporters — but Putin’s clear preference for him over Clinton (combined with Trump’s naiveté on all things Russia) gives them great pause.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: medialies; nonsense; propaganda; russia; washingtonpost
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Can someone explain this article to me? I can find no evidence within of this mass number of eastern Europeans residing in America going against Trump, or of anything "backfiring". It's like The Washington Post and that nutjob Anne Applebaum think if they write it enough, it becomes true.
1 posted on 08/28/2016 4:00:50 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

It’s an attack on trump that is tough to disprove. How do you prove a negative? It’s the 2016 equivalent of “when did you stop beating your wife?”

But there’s plenty of poof of Clinton and Biden’s dealings in Russia.


2 posted on 08/28/2016 4:04:15 PM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: Trump20162020

Oh, now Putin is HURTING Trump. I get it.

Sorry, 95% of the voting public doesn’t even know who Putin is.


3 posted on 08/28/2016 4:04:40 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Trump20162020

[Can someone explain this article to me?]

Totally manufactured Bullsh**.

Really incredible.


4 posted on 08/28/2016 4:04:48 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Trump20162020
#BernersForTrump ‏@GodlessNZ 20 hours ago

Every time DNC did something nasty to Berners, it only grew the mvt. Same is happening w #Trump2016. Slow learners.


5 posted on 08/28/2016 4:05:16 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (Globalism = Terrorism)
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To: Trump20162020

There is absolutely no evidence of this and in fact I know people of direct eastern European decent (and they hate the Russians) who work for the campaign.


6 posted on 08/28/2016 4:07:21 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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I can explain.

The writer’s parents were inbred and that kind of stuff messes up your offspring.

This dumb ####.


7 posted on 08/28/2016 4:08:48 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Trump20162020

Another WaPo piece of snowflake nonsense. I’m sure it’s really hurting Putin. LOL. This guy is a real pant load. I’ll bet even Putin doesn’t have a clue what this retard is talking about.


8 posted on 08/28/2016 4:09:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: Trump20162020

This maggot should stick to writing bs gay advocacy articles.

https://www.google.com/#q=James+Hohmann+a+gay+advocate


9 posted on 08/28/2016 4:16:50 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for freedom is stronger than that of the Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
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Russian journalist critical of Vladimir Putin found dead on his birthday with gunshot wound to head

independent.co.uk/ cannot post on this site.

Just likely Hillary enemies

10 posted on 08/28/2016 4:23:52 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar -- Yes, I know, she now supports HRC :()
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To: Trump20162020

Imagine that, the Compost trots out another self loathing Jewish Reporter to run a hit piece on Trump. Never would have guessed it.


11 posted on 08/28/2016 4:24:51 PM PDT by DAC21
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One of the daily hit pieces from the Washington Post’s stable of journalists assigned to take down Trump.

I doubt most Americans care about Russia - and the MSM is growing increasingly desperate.

Hit pieces haven’t brought down Trump and rescued Hillary. It isn’t working.


12 posted on 08/28/2016 4:27:12 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Trump20162020
This one's easy > > if it's from that WP assrag, it's a LIE.

Next . . .

14 posted on 08/28/2016 4:30:20 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Trump20162020

Pffft. Killary and the DNC would have had everyone in the world believe Benghazi was caused by a youtube video...yeah, I believe this commie newspaper.


15 posted on 08/28/2016 4:30:59 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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The WP office must be like the old days at the National Enquirer. “Hey guys, listen to this idea I have for a story.” Uproar of laughter follows.


16 posted on 08/28/2016 4:34:37 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Trump20162020

So says the Compost, that noted messenger for lies, injustice and the Bolshie way.


17 posted on 08/28/2016 4:34:46 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (If you like your part-time job, you can keep your part-time job. Vote Bolshecrat.)
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James Hohmann....(combined with Trump’s naiveté on all things Russia)...

What do you know about Trump’s knowledge of “all things Russian”???

My guess is trump knows more about Russia than you...

Trump is not a dummy....


18 posted on 08/28/2016 4:38:41 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Trump20162020

I think they want to propagate the meme that all of the illuminating leaks about Hillarys true nature and activities are coming from a Russian hack and is intended to sway the election

This latest press spin is designed to distract from the substance if the emails that show her true corruption and ineptness

Shoot the messenger

Except Assange made it clear the hacker source is not Russia


19 posted on 08/28/2016 4:47:14 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Trump20162020

This made up fiction is called news by the Washington Compost. These clowns are totally irrelevant.


20 posted on 08/28/2016 4:51:18 PM PDT by iontheball
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