The Russia hacking report is an indictment of Obama, not Trump

The Washington Post ^ | January 9, 2017 | Marc A. Thiessen

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Let’s be clear: Hillary Clinton did not lose the 2016 election because of Russian meddling or WikiLeaks. And here is the proof: WikiLeaks began publishing its trove of Democratic National Committee emails on July 22, 2016, three days before the Democratic National Convention. By then, Hillary Clinton was already in a deep hole with American voters.

Long before WikiLeaks, Americans had concluded that Clinton was a congenital liar. A CNN poll taken July 13-16 found that 65 percent of voters said Clinton was neither honest nor trustworthy and that 57 percent would not be proud to have her as president. A July 16 CBS News poll showed similar results — 67 percent of voters said Clinton was not honest or trustworthy. And little wonder. By then, Clinton had lied so often, for so many years, about so many things — her emails, the Clinton Foundation, Benghazi, arriving in Bosnia under sniper fire, Whitewater, the firing of White House travel aides, the Madison S&L — that most Americans no longer believed a word she said.

It’s no surprise, then, that long before WikiLeaks, her approval rating was underwater. The same pre-WikiLeaks CNN poll found that 55 percent of Americans viewed Clinton unfavorably, while just 41 percent viewed her favorably — the lowest favorable rating she had scored in CNN polling in 24 years, going all the way back to April 1992. Gallup had similar results in its poll taken July 16-23. “As the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Philadelphia,” Gallup reported at the time, “Hillary Clinton’s image is at its lowest point in the 24 years of her national career, with 38% of Americans viewing her favorably and 57% unfavorably.”

In other words, the WikiLeaks stories simply confirmed what Americans already knew: that Clinton was dishonest and corrupt....

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Everyone should read the whole article. It’s amazing this made it into the Washington Post.

[eyeamok]

Thank God they finally found somebody sober at the Post

[Political Junkie Too]

By then, Clinton had lied so often, for so many years, about so many things — her emails, the Clinton Foundation, Benghazi, arriving in Bosnia under sniper fire, Whitewater, the firing of White House travel aides, the Madison S&L — that most Americans no longer believed a word she said.<

She lies about her own name.

-PJ

[euram]

I remember hearing over and over again that Clinton’s lies, dishonesty and email scandal were all “baked in the cake” and her supporters were going to support her no matter what, and those who didn’t like her weren’t going to vote for her no matter what. So, how can they turn around and now say that the Podesta and DNC emails mattered to anyone but those who weren’t going to vote for her anyway?

The whole Russian Hack story is a smokescreen of #fakenews behind which the dems and their media lapdogs are hiding from their abject failure to defeat Trump.

[oblomov]

Note: Thiessen was a speechwriter for GWB and Donald Rumsfeld.

[ctdonath2]

The FBI report isn’t an indictment of the Russians, it’s an indictment of those who did not take information security seriously as demonstrated/required in law.

[butlerweave]

The Obama Admin would announced some kind of Hacking every few months and DID NOTHING