It’s exactly what the Hitlery State Dept. Attempted to do to Putin during Russia’s presidential elections. Classic case of projection.
Why are they saying it?
Fundraising.
Can you imagine what their donors are thinking, looking at an all GOP govt after being told 8 yrs ago it would be 50 yrs of Dem rule.
Fundraising.
This seems to be a Hail Mary effort to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. I think people need to be on high alert about this effort, while at the same time I believe it will crash and burn in January.
The hand of Soros can be seen here. This is taking a few isolated and (in and of themselves) unimportant factoids and presenting them as earth-shaking revelations. Yes, it’s true that Putin has a little army of internet propagandists putting out specific pro-Russian, pro-Putin messages on various internet sites. But at the same time, Russia and Putin believe larger things that many people on the political right believe, so the effort is being made to trap all of those mainstream and widespread beliefs in with specific instances of pro-Putin spin. An example would be that Joe Blow was being paid to spread Russian propaganda such as they have no soldiers in Ukraine and they deserve to have Crimea and that Ukraine was full of fascists and also, the Clinton foundation was crooked and global warming was a hoax and the U.S. should co-operate with Russia in solving the Syrian civil war. (add we should all drive on the right and walk upright on two legs to get the full spectrum effect).
Mature internet forum readers (who make up perhaps ten per cent of Trump’s voting base) can easily distinguish what is generally Moscow b.s. from what is legitimate social and political commentary that would happen even if Putin slept through the whole election campaign.
It is the leftist equivalent of the alt right concern that we are all about to be swept into FEMA camps and given a choice between re-education or death by firing squad. It takes a number of observable facts, one or two objectionable details, and spins up a theory that is completely absurd.
Climate change was, of course, the training ground for such theorists.
So the hail Mary aspect is that if people see a problem
That’s what I think too. It certainly fits in with Obama’s open mic promise to Putin about having more latitude after the election in the run-up to 2012 election.
0bama and the rats were busy in Israel too.