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At that point it’s not clear to me they had a functional voter file. The RNC did.
I was thinking it could be a reference to emails they could use to hurt GOPers. Carrot and stick.
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RNC was hacked too, right? Or at least attempt was made and their security was supposedly better? That came straight from Trumps mouth.
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Yeah, that's my point. If Russians are doing carrot and stick, mentioning that they'd be willing to release Hillary's but would hold the Republican ones would exert two kinds of pressure.
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I’ve assumed it’s likely the Russians got some emails showing Repubs plotting against him. And I don’t meanbullshit like the DNC hacked emails, but active coordination against Trump, along with plenty of disdain & mockery. And/or the Russians got evidence of Repub criminality
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They hacked Lindsey and Rubio.
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Is this established to some degree, or informed speculation?
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Documented. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/291317-gop-emails-leaked-on-site-connected-to-russian-hackers … Targeting of Rubio was made clear at a hearing.
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My hesitation in thinking Rubio and/or Graham was blackmailed is the premise that it would be necessary to get them to fold on something.
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Lindsey has done a 180 on pressuing Trump on Russia.
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Could be that. Could be that Manafort was so out of date on US campaigns & campaign finance laws he knew he’d have to rely on the RNC to have/find vehicles for using Russian money. iirc it was around that time that Gates was dispatched to the RNC
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And it could be both
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