None of this explains how a person could sway an election. Trump spent less money than Hillary by far. Trump had few ads, and the Russians only had $100,000 worth, which is less than .1% of Hillary’s ads. The Russians did not campaign for Trump, they did not knock on doors. So how did the Russians help Trump. If they released the emails, how did they get Podesta to set his password to Password. How did they get Donna Brazil to give Hillary the questions to the debates. How did they get foreign powers to give the Clinton foundation lots of money. How did they get Hillary to tell Chelsea what really happened in Benghazi while she was lying to the rest of America.
Maybe they can drum up some Russian connection like six degrees to Kevin Bacon. But they can’t show how Russians helped us believe that Hillary was a worse person than we already knew she was.
Ooh, they gave the Russian ambassador a phone number — I am old enough to remember when everyone’s phone number was in a big book that you had in your house. Then the menacing Russkies could have looked it up there and made it ring for all we know.
“Hello, this is the Russian ambassador. I support you. Your people can never be free again. Do the math. My support places tentacles around every citizen. See? Can you even breathe?”
COME ON !!!!
I mean, come on.
The media was all too happy to position Donald Trump as the GOP candidate. They gave him the lion’s share of time at the primary debates, let him suck up all of the air in the room in news coverage (they acknowledge he was good for ratings), and thought that he would suppress “conservative” and “evangelical” voter turnout with scandals that had long been deemed irrelevant by the press and voters.
The Democrats and Clintons thought it was going to be a cakewalk.