Probably the best “fake news” of 2016 was this assertion that the Russians somehow “hacked” the election results.
There is no possible way that the count in the election could possibly be affected from Moscow. It was and is possible to go through the office of the Secretary of State of each of the separate states of the United States, where the actual statewide tally of the votes is enumerated, and somehow hack THEIR separate computers, but this is not what was alleged.
Notable throughout this entire episode, is that neither John Podesta nor any other Democrat official, whose computer was allegedly hacked, that any of the information made public was ever FABRICATED by the Russians, but in fact, the information recovered was the text of the emails as written by the originators of this conspiracy within the Democrat party, and was acted upon accordingly.
It was and is possible to go through the office of the Secretary of State of each of the separate states of the United States, where the actual statewide tally of the votes is enumerated, and somehow hack THEIR separate computers, but this is not what was alleged.
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I thought it was all over since Soros compromised all the SOS in the various states? Oh, didn’t work?
Must have been the Russians!
Note carefully that the purveyors of the 'hacking' meme never actually say that the votes were hacked. They throw the word up like a giant Macy's balloon and let the sheeples draw that conclusion themselves.