2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMcConnell and Trump are guilty of treason
1) McConnell was told that we had to increase security around our elections because of Russian actions and he blocked it.
Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House
Though U.S. intelligence agencies were skeptical that hackers would be able to manipulate the election results in a systematic way, the White House feared that Russia would attempt to do so, sowing doubt about the fundamental mechanisms of democracy and potentially forcing a more dangerous confrontation between Washington and Moscow.
In a secure room in the Capitol used for briefings involving classified information, administration officials broadly laid out the evidence U.S. spy agencies had collected, showing Russias role in cyber-intrusions in at least two states and in hacking the emails of the Democratic organizations and individuals.
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The Democratic leaders in the room unanimously agreed on the need to take the threat seriously. Republicans, however, were divided, with at least two GOP lawmakers reluctant to accede to the White House requests.
According to several officials, McConnell raised doubts about the underlying intelligence and made clear to the administration that he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.62bd935992b9 happened in Sept. 2016
2) Trump publicly called for Russia to hack the DNC and HRCs campaign.
Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clintons Missing Emails
DORAL, Fla. Donald J. Trump said on Wednesday that he hoped Russian intelligence services had successfully hacked Hillary Clintons email, and encouraged them to publish whatever they may have stolen, essentially urging a foreign adversary to conduct cyberespionage against a former secretary of state.
Russia, if youre listening, I hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clintons deleted emails. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html?_r=0 happened in July 2016
3) McConnnel knows that the elections have been rigged for sometime now. In Nov. 2015 the democratic Sec. of State in KY was 5 or 6 points up going into the race for governor
.. he lost by 9 or 10 points which is a 14 to 16 point swing.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Particularly in 2014, that seemed to defy the polls.
Botany
(72,515 posts)Exit poll results in southeast Kansas show machine votes were altered.
These exit poll results clearly point to manipulation of the machine counts of our votes. These are not random errors. There is no other reasonable explanation for large and consistent errors in favor (or against) particular candidates in this situation.
Presidential race results show votes shifted from Clinton to Trump in four of the five locations all except Sumner County.
Votes in the Senate and 4th district Congress races were skewed toward the Libertarians at all five exit poll locations.
The data from the Supreme Court Judges show Yes votes stolen in four of the five locations all except Sumner County, where they received extra Yes votes.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)It seemed like Brownback was getting his ass kicked, then he was swept in by plenty.
It seems even in cases where the republican candidate is going to win, they win by more.
Botany
(72,515 posts).... somehow he "won" re-election?
BTW the father of Cross Check* is the Sec. of State in Kansas and he worked for Trump too.
* http://www.gregpalast.com/election-stolen-heres/
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)Either he or members of his team working with the Russians.
You can be sure after insulting the CIA if there's evidence of it it will be found.
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apcalc
(4,518 posts)This we KNOW
2.8 million more votes....
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Botany
(72,515 posts)Reading is fundamental. The Washington Post article says that Russia was
trying to hack the election to help Trump.
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Botany
(72,515 posts)Leaking emails does not amount to "hacking an election", even if Russia was responsible, which is highly doubtful.
The leaked emails were given to republicans to "investigate" and to keep the "Crooked Hillary"
meme going. And some were used in order to piss off Bernie supporters.
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LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)and there are LOTS of people in DC who know it.
Botany
(72,515 posts)My dad who is 88 has two hearing aids because of the Korean war (he was in the
the Navy and was in battle) and he was fighting against Russian influence expanding
around the world.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)onenote
(44,699 posts)Because a bunch of us fought very hard against the Vietnam War, which supposedly was fought to stop Russian influence expanding around the world.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)would that be possible???
We need to stop letting the GOP AND the Media kick us around, when we're the fucking grownup patriots.