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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin & Russia Helped Trump in 2020, too.
In addition to 2016 (but not the 2024 election, we are to understand) Putin and his country helped Trump in 2020. I'm so old, I remember when that wasn't just illegal, it was treason.
Intelligence Report:
Russia Tried To Help Trump In 2020 Election
by Greg Myre
NPR, March 16, 2021
A new report by the U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday says Russia sought to help former President Donald Trump in last year's presidential election. But the document also emphasized there was no indication Russia or any other country attempted to alter actual votes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized "influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process and exacerbating socio-political divisions in the U.S," says the report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The unclassified document is the most comprehensive look the intelligence community has released regarding foreign efforts to meddle in the 2020 election.
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No evidence of vote fraud
U.S. election officials have repeatedly described last year's balloting as secure and free of fraud. The intelligence community says in its finding that there was no fraud from abroad either.
"We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results," the report says.
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https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/977958302/intelligence-report-russia-tried-to-help-trump-in-2020-election
"Not the same scale" can mean "in a different way."
And the main point: Putin helped Trump in 2016 and 2020.
I think it's a good bet he helped in 2024, as well.
There is one sure thing: Trump will do all in his power to keep We the People from knowing how much he owes Vladimir Putin.
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Putin & Russia Helped Trump in 2020, too. (Original Post)
Kid Berwyn
Nov 8
OP
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(25,262 posts)1. no indication Russia or any other country attempted to alter actual votes
2024 : the coast is clear now
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Kid Berwyn
(18,433 posts)2. Who knows what technological marvels can be accomplished in secret?
Trump's nickname in the Kremlin is "America's Gorbachev."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/putin-trump-yalta
Were America's press not a corpse, it would have been written large on every photo printed and video broadcast of Trump.
But, no. The nation enjoyed a long focus on the cats and the dogs and the pets the immigrants are eating.