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Robert Mueller, Former F.B.I. Director, Is Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by KingCheetah, May 17, 2017.

  1. NewRoxFan

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    This must be one of those rhetorical questions... as if any republican/trump supporter would ever answer honestly. Instead, they would probably say something about tarmac meetings, and "but her emails"...

     
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    I am sure you have all sorts of polling information and focus group results that showed how russian interference didn't effected voters. After all, no one looks at advertisements, attends rallies and views social media for news content and reinforcement of thought process. Probably why campaigns rarely if ever spend money on any of that... :rolleyes:
     
  3. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Mrs Clinton was a public figure a quarter of a century before the election

    If someone read those emails they weren't voting for her anyway
     
  4. pgabriel

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    @NewRoxFan

    This is the thing about running her. You already could count the votes. We're talking about a woman who people have strong opinions about. Not a new politician or mundane politician
     
  5. NewRoxFan

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    Then, I guess we really have no need for political campaigns... since candidates are public figures and people's minds are always made up already. So, you're voting for trump again, huh?
     
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    I am not mad at yall for wanting more information.
     
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    And yet, she won the popular vote, and if it were for a few thousand votes in key states, coincidentally, key states that russian investment in interference was heavy, she may have won the election.
     
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    Not every candidate has been around like mrs Clinton
     
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    Link on Russian investment by state in interference?
     
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    Where'd you get this? I made it and put it on Reddit years ago.
     
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    Haha

    I just googled something like sad money meme and it came up.
     
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    We can't even get trump to provide his tax returns or even an accurate accounting of his 2016 campaign spending and you want 2016 russian campaign spending? Maybe we should subpoena those records from the trump/putin campaign as well... and maybe that trump internal campaign polling data was more useful to the russians than we thought?


    OK, to answer your question, we know WI was targeted. And trump won WI by 0.8% of the vote. Heck, they just found this:

    Amid Mueller investigation, Russians also tried to hack Wisconsin systems: What we know
    https://www.wausaudailyherald.com/s...tions-before-during-mueller-probe/3266933002/

    And we knew this in 2017:

    Federal authorities didn't tell Wisconsin for a year about Russian involvement in hacking attempts
    https://www.wausaudailyherald.com/s...ssian-involvement-hacking-attempts/717241001/

    WI was one of seven key states the russians targeted:

    U.S. intel: Russia compromised seven states prior to 2016 election
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/el...ised-seven-states-prior-2016-election-n850296
     
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    Trump won because of 80k votes. That's a very small margin. If you don't think releasing hacked emails and using Facebook and Twitter bots helped Trump I don't know what to say. It's hard to measure what those things did. Maybe Trump would have won without those things. I think Hillary took some states for granted which she shouldn't have, but to say it had no impact would be disingenuous.
     
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    Those were unsuccessful attempts of hacking voting registration information.
     
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    Facebook says Russia spent $100K on 2016 election ads. Do you have any idea how meaningless that amount is?
     
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    well clearly that was the best spent Facebook ad money EVAH
     
  19. pgabriel

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    Exactly. She stopped campaigning in battleground states. Regardless the story of her loss was turnout
     
  20. tallanvor

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    they spent money, just not on facebook
     

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