Facepalm: Obama Spy Chief Says Russia Decided Outcome of 2016 Election

Townhall.com ^ | May 24, 2018 | Matt Vespa

[faithhopecharity]

yes.... well if Russia did have any influence, THANK YOU RUSSIA!

[mylife]

Clapper is no White Rat.

[tennmountainman]

I bet this hack would not constantly be lying if he were put under oath
in a grand jury.

[God luvs America]

and the fault lies squarely at the feet of obama and his incompetent hacks- comey, brennan, clapper, etc, etc...

[CivilWarBrewing]

Q: Who would Russia prefer be president, Uranium One Hillary or Trump?

A: Hillary, of course!

Russia helping Trump is UTTER NONSENSE.

[ClearCase_guy]

1) The Obama Admin put at least one spy in Trump’s campaign, and that’s OK
2) Because the spy was there to protect Trump from the Russians
3) But the incompetent Obama Admin totally failed
4) Because the Russians succeeded in controlling the US election

As a defense strategy, I think this one fails.

[BenLurkin]

He’s a rat.

[SpaceBar]

A nauseating hemisphere of meat with eyes.

[Spruce]

Agreed. It is just not logical, at all, to suggest the Russians would rather be dealing with Trump. They were already dealing with Hillary and would have loved her to win.

[butlerweave]

Clapper loves his Vodka ,LOL

[Lysandru]

Thank you for saying that. That is why the Mueller Probe was silly from the get go—even leaving aside the obvious conflicts of interest and bending of DoJ rules. But I was willing to go along with a gag for a while, but now it is obvious to any sentient being that the FBI and CIA tampered with our democracy more than the FSB and SVR.

[Fedora]

Since I left the government, though, as a private citizen, it’s what I would call my informed opinion that, given the massive effort the Russians made, and the number of citizens that they touched, and the variety and the multidimensional aspects of what they did to influence opinion and affect the election, and given the fact that it turned on less than 80,000 votes in three states, to me, it just exceeds logic and credulity that they didn’t affect the election, and it’s my belief they actually turned it.

So in other words he has no data to support this "belief".

[Celtic Conservative]

He would’ve looked better in that photo if he’d put his teeth in first.

CC

[Celtic Conservative]

He would’ve looked better in that photo if he’d put his teeth in first.

CC

[savedbygrace]

Which three States?

[ptsal]

Jim Clapper needs to lawyer-up and shut his flapper.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

The Russians did not decide the 2016 election, the American people did. They were tired of clowns like James Clapper and the like shootinf off his mouth. That is why the election was decided in the more rural parts of the country rather than metropolitan areas where liberals tend to cluster.

[petitfour]

Mexicans decided the popular vote. lol

[Michael.SF.]

Since I left the government, though, as a private citizen, it’s what I would call my informed opinion

. So he became more informed after leaving government work