/7 If you took all the news reporting over the past 18 mos, put it into a Markov chain bot, it would spit out "Clinton e-mail" 50% of time.
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/8 The intent of Wikileaks was to damage Clinton's legitimacy, for obvious reasons. Clinton once asked why US couldn't drone Assange.
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/9 The intent of the Russians was: get back at Clinton for sanctions, at US for Panama Papers, to disrupt NATO, undermine US moral authority
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/10 ... or some combination of the above. Not necessarily to put Trump in White House, as big as a win as that has been for Putin.
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/11 The GOP was also out to damage Clinton. Judicial Watch was out to damage Clinton. James Comey? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Cover his ass.
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/12 But none of this would have been possible if Clinton and the DNC hadn't own-goaled themselves repeatedly & lost touch with the narrative
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/13 Meanwhile, all this "fake news" bs? The real story is that social media has let us ignore voices saying things we don't like.
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/14 The "election hacking" claims--as in what Jill Stein is trying to prove--are really just providing cover for very real voting issues...
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/15 like voter suppression through reduced polling places, voter ID laws, and political gerrymandering. The *states* have hacked elections.
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/16 So while Wikileaks and Russia both played a role in setting narrative, it was a minor supporting role, not an outcome-changer.
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Attempts to hyphenate Russia & WikiLeaks even now are an extension of the neo-McCarthyist drive during the electoral campaign.
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