Pivotal to this story is that the Russians gave Wikileaks the DNC/Podesta emails, but Wikileaks founder Julian Assuage, love him or hate him, he has never lied and has denied this. Clapper and his crew is another story, however.
None of the intel agencies ever actually examined the DNC server, but a DNC connected security firm Crowd Strike did.
For sure Russia did try to influence the election but there is a good chance Russia DID try to influence the election but they did so to help HILLARY get elected, not Trump.
The people whom you have evidence of illegality on are the ones that you TRY to get elected. For example, China-Clinton. The Trump-Russian narrative doesn’t support this.
None of the deleted or damaging Hillary emails besides DNC or Podesta ones have surfaced suggesting people that have them like the FBI or enemies want to leverage them.
Didn’t she delete over 30,000 of them? I am going out on a limb her but I think Russia HAS these deleted emails. If they were trying to damage her, why didn’t they leak them?
But think of other Russian interests.
They would like us to remove tactical nukes from Europe.
They would like us to let the military deteriorate.
They would like us to NOT develop our energy resources. A drop in oil price would have a massive impact on Russia economically.
They would not want us to build up our military intelligence.
They would not want us to develop our military technology.
They would not want us to be secure from terrorist attacks.
On each and every one of these issues, the candidate the Russians would NOT want to get elected would be Donald Trump.
I think most people who believe this story was falsified by a politicized intel community instinctively know this, but I think it is worthwhile to state it unequivocally.
Also, who do you think Russia thought would GET elected?
Almost all news including Fox thought Hillary had an 85% or higher chance. Putin doesn’t have his own people taking polls so he relies on ours.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to get the goods on her and wait until she is elected before rocking the boat?
Add that 100 million in venture capital at crowdstrike since that. Love to know where that came from.
>> I am going out on a limb her but I think Russia HAS these deleted emails. If they were trying to damage her, why didn’t they leak them?
I don’t see that as going out on a limb one bit.
Immediately upon the story of Clinton’s private Sec’y of State bathroom Exchange server coming to light, my immediate reaction was that our intelligence people had better be operating under the assumption that any country with an intelligence service worthy of the name had the complete contents of that server. And quite likely some non-state actors. At least 8-10 countries off the top of my head, some friendly, some not. Our operations people *really* needed to be aware of those contents, and operating under that assumption.
I did not need to speak with any Russians to come to that conclusion. Neither did candidate Trump, which is why he jokingly suggested maybe the Russians would provide us with the “lost” HRC emails.