[realcleanguy]

So the Democrat position today is: “Putin hacked our elections while Obama and the Democrats sat back in agreement. “

[ctdonath2]

The “hacking” charge remains unduly vague. At worst they lifted some emails from a couple servers which were remarkably - and deliberately - insecure. Anyone so inclined could have breached that security, and most could leave tracks pointing at Russia.

What’s remarkable is how those accusing Russia utterly fail to accuse Herself et al of making it so easy & tempting to do so.

[Slyfox]

WHY?

BECAUSE:

[Nifster]

In Georgia the only hacking that was confirmed was multiple attempts by DHS.

[Cboldt]

Trump is the target of internal coup because he won. If he had lost, none of this would be news. All the predicates would still be there, the "active measures", the "collusion," and everything else. But in the US, none of that would make a dent in the press if Hillary had won the election.

Therefore, all of this hype is designed to deligitimize the results of the election. It has no other purpose. Congress is working overtime to deligitimize the election, all the while proclaiming that no votes were changed. It is utter nonsense.

[digger48]

Bkmk

[Ancesthntr]

Here’s the bigger question:

Why would Russia have WANTED Trump to win?

I simply cannot believe that they did - and here’s why:

1) Russia’s economy (just like in the 1980s) is highly dependent upon oil and natural gas exports (they get about 2/3 of their foreign currency earnings from this source);

2) Russia’s economy (just like in the 1980s) is not in great shape and would be heavily burdened by having to divert enormous resources to countering a large US military build-up.

3) Trump campaigned on massively increasing energy production via regulatory and tax cuts, whereas Hillary Clinton wanted to keep following the Obama policy of closing down coal mines and keeping a lid on leases of federally-controlled land thought to be oil-bearing;

4) Trump campaigned on a large increase in US military strength, whereas Hillary Clinton said pretty much nothing about the subject.

5) Putin is not only not stupid, he is an intelligent, highly-informed nationalist. He observed what this country was able to do to the Soviet economy (collapse it to the point of forcing a change in government), and he is STILL bitter about that. Why on Earth would he want to subject Russia to the same treatment now? A rational actor (and Putin is the very definition of rational) would not only NOT support Trump, he’d rush to support Trump’s weak opponent.

I think that these facts are no secret, and that most people who put even a little bit of thought into this will reach the same conclusion.