it seems as though the Russians were behind trump's winning the presidency. committee's in congress now investigating, seems most of his transition team is involved, there is a lot of smoke any fire??
Greetings Binnie, and all,
Lets assume that Trump and his campaign cheated. What are the implications?
It means the wikileaks releases about Hillary and the DNC were orchestrated by Putin, for Trump's benefit.
But in return for what? It had to be at the very least what was reported, for starters, that Trump, if elected, would support Putin's annexation of Crimea and lift sanctions on Russia.
Now let's look at what actually happened since the election. Trump has done an about face on Putin, stating that he does not in fact back the annexation of Crimea. And the latest news chatter since the US strikes in Syria is that the sanctions on Russia probably will not be lifted or eased.
So Trump comes out ahead. Hillary broke the law and skated. Hillary cheated in the election with the help of the women who run the DNC. Much of the news media sided with Hillary due to political and monetary ties...did not give Trump any say. They judged the message by criticizing the messenger. Instead of highlighting Trump's arguments, they highlighted his eccentricities as an individual. Then what does Trump do? He gets an outside power and media outlet to do for him what Hillary had the mass media doing for her here. Even Steven.
Russia didn't hack any voting machines, because those machines aren't connected to the internet.
If the last election was stolen and tampered with, someone here did it, and they are not any foreign power.
At the end of the day, everyone voted according to what was known, whether leaked or not. Hillary lost, that's all there is to it.
If Trump's team broke laws by brokering deals with Russia before the election...Putin didn't get his money's worth. He got taken.
Another point to make is that impeachment for Trump over any pre election dealings with Russia is very unlikely. There are two reasons for that, minimum. Number one, you have a Republican Senate and House. They aren't impeaching any Republican President. Number two, the US govt does not take down it's own leadership because of interference from a hostile power. What will happen is that any incriminating information uncovered during the Russia/Trump investigation will be viewed only by members of Congress with high security clearance and kept from the media and the public.
