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May 06, 2018

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anon

the unprecedented foreign intervention in the 2016 presidential election"

Seems you have information that the Special Counsel does not. Reading the indictments to date, no such "unprecedented" activity appears.

Likewise, please cite the evidence that the volume of purchases of ads on Facebook (a little tiny drop in a very big bucket, and not even in the states that mattered) and the hacked DNC and Podesta emails (please cite the evidence that this was "Foreign intervention") had a material effect on the election.

You tend to pepper otherwise acceptable analyses with unsupported tropes that you pick up from Democratic Party talking points and throw in for "sweeteners." This practice undercuts your credibility, as it evokes the image of an undergraduate who hasn't learned about citations and fact checking one's work.

BTW, your statement that "In 2016 Russian hackers targeted the registration systems in 21 states, and even gained access to Illinois’s voter registration database." is a far cry from "tampered with" or "affected" these systems in any way whatsoever. Indeed, the NYT article you cite says that this "targeting" amounted to a burglar looking at a house, and the "grave threat" of this activity wasn't even deemed worthy of a notice to those "looked over" for over a year (i.e., by the prior administration).

Deep State Special Legal Counsel

Since Activist Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Thomas, legislated from the bench and installed President Cheney to office in 2000, every election should be treated as an EMERGENCY.

anymouse

"The 21st Century has not been particularly kind to the United States. Since 2000 we have experienced one national trauma after another, including the bitterly-deadlocked presidential election in 2000, the devastating 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the intractable wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina, the Wall Street meltdown in 2008, and the unprecedented foreign intervention in the 2016 presidential election."

Get the fainting couch.

And don't forget to add the election results from 2008 and 2012.

Deep State Special Legal Counsel

Whaaaaaaat?????????^^^^ Your reasoning does not work here. How do you segue from wars, terror attacks, weather disasters to the elections of President Obama?

The election of President Obama TWICE was a great triumph of democracy. He was scandal free and had one legislative triumph after another. Not to mention the great symbolism of he himself taking office.

The greatest thing about Obama as President is that I could sleep at night knowing that our Nation was in good hands.

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