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So according to liberals Russia forced people to vote for Trump. Do liberals realize how idiotic that is?

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    No liberal has claimed that Russia forced people to vote for Trump. What they claim, because it is true, is that Russia ran an extensive multimillion dollar covert influence campaign aimed at hurting Clinton and boosting Trump. Some of this involved social media ads which reached tens of millions of American voters. The more spectacular part is the theft and strategic release of emails from Democratic sources. The Russians used these emails to disrupt the Democratic campaign and help Trump. For instance, the first batch of emails were released on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, when Clinton was trying to unite Democrats after a hard fought primary. Other batches were released throughout the campaign, timed to aid Trump or hurt Clinton. For example, just thirty minutes after the Washington Post published a story detailing how Trump bragged on tape about sexually assaulting women, the Russians, through wikileaks, released more emails. This helped muddy the news cycle about the tape, particularly in conservative circles, as well as helping to distract from the US Governments announcement earlier in the day that the Russians were behind the hacks.

    The idea that these could have influence voters isn't idiotic. Remember, Republicans insist that bias in the news media is mostly responsible for Democratic electoral successes. I've seen numerous Republicans claim that without such bias, and the favorable news coverage which results from it, Barack Obama would never have been elected and Democrats would rarely, if ever, win elections. If all that's possible from bias in the news media then it's certainly possible that a multi million dollar influence campaign by a foreign government could have swayed some voters, perhaps even the couple thousand voters who gave Trump his margin of victory in key Rust Belt states.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Since no liberal said that, you FAIL.

  • 2 years ago

    "Tricked" is a more accurate word than "forced".

    Political campaigns spend millions of dollars on advertising and social media. If it didn't work, they wouldn't do it. So it is idiotic to think that it wouldn't work when Russia did it.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Do you realize how idiotic you sound by misrepresenting the liberal position or what "Russian interference" actually means?

    You're using what is called "a stawman" where you mischaracterize the opposing view to make it easier to shoot down. It's a logical fallacy and rather then make a point it demonstrates how unreasonable and ignorant you are.

    I'd explain it more to you except I know you can't use reason to discuss an issue if the person never used reason to get to their perspective to begin with.

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  • 2 years ago

    Pretty stupid right. People are glued to their phones and now pot is legal the government is MIND XXXXXXXXX everyone. And we are worried about the Russians.

  • zeno
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    It is part of their war on America to confuse

    And deceive and dumb down the public as

    Much as possible with insane stories and

    False accusations and obstruct things with

    Lawyers and criminals and mafia like people

    In every part of our government. We need to

    Ban democrats from all government positions

    And block them from practicing in law.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Putin has Trump and the Christofascist Republican Nazi Party leadership by the balls. We are currently a Russian satellite until senior republicans start putting country before party and federal prosecution.

    I also realize how gay libcrusher is.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    If you take the Russian money out the Trump campaign then Hillary is our current President

  • ?
    Lv 6
    2 years ago

    It`s good thing that they did. A lot of them would have voted for the lady if they hadn't. Vlad made them vote trump.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    I realize how idiotic you are. I also realize how gay libcrusher is.

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