Posted on 05/24/2018 4:03:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
“Since I left the government, though, as a private citizen, its what I would call my informed opinion that, given the massive effort the Russians made, and the number of citizens that they touched, and the variety and the multidimensional aspects of what they did to influence opinion and affect the election, and given the fact that it turned on less than 80,000 votes in three states, to me, it just exceeds logic and credulity that they didnt affect the election, and its my belief they actually turned it.”
The first part of Clapper’s error is that there is no evidence whatsoever that any Russian effort was a factor swaying 80,000 votes in three states from Billary, Inc. to Trump, merely because that was the popular vote difference in the three states Clapper is referring to. Correlation is not and does not prove causation. But worse is his estimation of the worth of the Russian effort, against those 80,000 votes, or any others.
Clapper spews the the nonsense that in spite of how much more massive, comparatively, was the efforts of both U.S. major parties, both of the major presidential campaigns, all the U.S. politicians campaigning on their own and in those efforts commenting as well on the two top presidential candidates, as well as all the in-kind campaign opinion making and shaping by all the formal U.S. media venues, as well as the total “social media” contributions by all those forces, and millions of private U.S. citizens, collectively, that somehow Russian’s small effort by comparison was enough to call the election?
It is no wonder with guys like Clapper in charge the U.S. never knew Putin was set to invade the Crimea; or possibly worse that under Obama they knew and, for Obama, Clapper kept his mouth shut publicly, so as to not screw up the pending deal with the Mullahs of Tehran, for Obama’s legacy, because that was more important?
It is good for the U.S. that people like Clapper no longer have their roles in the U.S. government. It is clear that many, including Clapper, Comey, Brennan, McCabe and Mueller have managed over the years to rise to their level of incompetence (the Peter Principle).
[There’s Clapper and Tapper and Halper and Mueller ...]
What about Donner and Wolf Blitzen! (haha)
And Hillary the red-nosed candidate....
Judy Woodruff just breathlessly said, tune in tomorrow, when we will report on the worlds 1st Smart gun....
Stupid Woman! do you not know guns can not think?
Delusional and/or irresponsible. What an a$$hole.
Let us ask him, “So why did you let that happen?”
The plastic fangs make it hard to speak. But that itself would have been an improvement.
Didn’t they name an STD after him?
LMAO!
CC
Smart gun: lets you know when you're almost out of bullets?
Clapper and Tapper and Halper and Mueller,
Holder and Jarrett and ‘Bama their ruler,
Brennan and Comey and set-ups and stings,
These are a few of my least fav’rite things.
The man is a chicken without a beak.
Hillary’s criminal and likely treasonous activites are what lost the election to her (besides America turning away from leftist democrats).
Obama supporters like this care nothing about that issue and actually prefer that such crimes were covered up.
How? Smartest woman in the world and greatest administration evah was bested by Pooty Poot and the vilest, most repulsive blond mafia boss. Lol
Real Americans won the 2016 election. Communists lost. Bless their hearts and hand them some antidepressants.
It’s all stupid stuff for lazy minds.
Smart fridge reports to Gov health care to deny you diabetic coverage because yer eating 15 pudding cups a day, and a quart of ice cream.
If, If there was any ‘influence’ on the election, it was that though the leaked emails the nation was able to see how deceitful and criminal the Democratic leadership really is. It likely wasn't the Russians who released those emails, but I do believe that those emails did effect the election - and I could not be happier. Finally, the unethical scum that were/are the Clintons and the Obama administration have been exposed - irrefutably. That is justice, not subversion. Clapper should be in leg irons.
Untrue. But if it were true, thank you Russia.
Commie bitches still proclaim that the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s were a bunch of empty witch hunts hating on Russia and card carrying Communists who din’ do nuttin’!
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