{"id":25336,"date":"2016-12-10T12:18:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T20:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25336"},"modified":"2016-12-10T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T20:18:34","slug":"from-russia-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/10\/from-russia-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"From Russia with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

For months, running up to the election I had no doubt that Russia was trying to interfere with our election, and that Putin was trying to put Trump in the White House.  It didn’t require rocket science.  It was obvious to anyone willing to look at it objectively, but i didn’t have a smoking gun, I didn’t know who had proof, and I didn’t know how long they had it.  Now we do, and it’s criminal.<\/font><\/p>\n

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American intelligence agencies have concluded with \u201chigh confidence\u201d that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign to harm Hillary Clinton\u2019s chances and promote Donald J. Trump, according to senior administration officials.<\/p>\n

They based that conclusion, in part, on another finding \u2014 which they say was also reached with high confidence \u2014 that the Russians hacked the Republican National Committee\u2019s computer systems in addition to their attacks on Democratic organizations, but did not release whatever information they gleaned from the Republican networks.<\/p>\n

In the months before the election, it was largely documents from Democratic Party systems that were leaked to the public. Intelligence agencies have concluded that the Russians gave the Democrats\u2019 documents to WikiLeaks<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Photo credit: Protect Our Elections<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

I remember that some Stein supporters were angry when I said that, since the most likely source for Assange’s material, that Stein was parroting on RT, was Putin’s FSB that Assange  was not acting as a whistleblower and had gone over to the dark side.  Now we know it’s true, but it gets much worse.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow<\/a> covered this incident in two segments.  In the first she digs out the dirty details with the Post’s Ellen Nakashima.<\/font><\/p>\n