Russia influencing US election in favor of trump? (moved)

[imind]

Officials also noted Trump’s own connections to the Russian government. Putin has publicly praised the nominee, who said he was “honored” by the compliment. Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was a consultant for Viktor Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine who was ousted for his pro-Moscow orientation (and now lives in Russia). One of Trump’s top national security advisers, retired Army Gen. Michael Flynn, sat with Putin at a dinner celebrating the 10th anniversary of Kremlin-backed media network RT and was paid to give a speech at the event; Flynn later retweeted an anti-Semitic message that called into question any Kremlin-Trump link. Another Trump adviser, Carter Page, recently denounced America’s “often-hypocritical focus on democratization” while in Moscow. And last week, Trump said that he might not come to the aid of U.S. NATO allies in the face of Russian aggression unless they paid what he thinks they owe for Europe’s common defense.

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seems like george will might be on to something when he suggested trump isn't releasing his tax records for fear of exposing links to russia...and are we going to accept the russian govt trying to influence our elections? seems some here should be angry about this...

Last month, CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm hired by the DNC, traced the source of the leaks to two groups of hackers (“Cozy Bear” and “Fancy Bear”) associated with two Russian intelligence agencies. Moscow’s virtual fingerprints are all over this operation, including hyperlinks in Cyrillic and Internet protocol addresses linked to previous Russian hacks. In short, this appears to be a Russian intelligence operation designed to damage Clinton.

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[Sword of the Lord]

Boo hoo hoo! We were caught being crooked racists! Blame Trump!

 

[bill5]

Wasn't it Russia that supposedly sabotaged Clinton just the other day lol @ this 3-ring circus.

And as if this matters. Trump has as much chance as McCain had to get elected...ie zero

 

[FreeinChrist]

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This is being moved to the OBOB General Politics forum. ​

 

[LivingWordUnity]

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Fantine has a thread with almost the same title. Shouldn't they be merged?

 

[FreeinChrist]

this is so short, it would be best just to post in that one then.

 

[MikeK]

I don't mind Russia attempting to meddle in American politics. While I have no live for the Russian government and the evils that they do (to say nothing of the evils ours does), we've been meddling in the politics of other countries ever since we became a superpower. I mean, we practically propped up and destroyed entire puppet governments at our whim, objecting to outside meddling seems rather hypocritical. We should certainly aknowledge that this is happening, bring it into the light, and resist it, but being upset or surprised about it seems silly.