This ‘Russia-hacking narrative’ is the DC ‘chaff and countermeasures‘; when combined with their ‘by-the-book‘ justifications, it becomes their unified defense. Once you accept their baseline, it becomes much more difficult to expose their unlawful conduct.
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I think that I’ve seen that elsewhere and I’ve been thinking it’s strategy. If Graham doesn’t have PROOF that it wasn’t the Russians, then he can’t say it; contrary assertions without public evidence would be assailed as partisanship.
Graham demonstrates “good will” (believes across the aisle info) by at first indicating he believes what he’s heard and at present the Mueller report says Russians were “involved” in the 2016 (influencing) the elections. But then Graham will obtain proof that it wasn’t Russians and they didn’t help Trump win, and he can then PUBLICLY sputter in disbelief, “ALL THIS TIME I’VE BEEN TOLD IT WAS RUSSIANS!” etc.
In other words, I’ve seen the Trump administration “not know” in the public sphere information that is only available in the Q sphere...until it’s “proven” otherwise in the public sphere. :)
>>I’ve been thinking it’s strategy
You are a blessing and a comfort! Many thanks for that.
Thank you!! Great point