Quote:Bloomberg's a better source than Slate, true.  When you put you link in a shouting font, it's actually harder to see, BTW.

 

Donald asked the Russians to hack the other candidate (on live TV, no less), they complied, and there will be a quid pro quo coming.  Hey, maybe it's not the worst thing in the world, especially if you don't live in the Ukraine.  Every U.S. President has had to deal with despots, and perhaps this is for the best.

 

He didn't ask the Russians to hack anything.  The emails in question had already been hacked.  Whoever did it, and there's every indication that it wasn't the Russians despite Hillary's lies to the contrary, was encouraged to release the emails. Remember, to "hack" those emails would be an admission that they weren't sufficiently deleted using Bleach Bit.  And the outrage the Clinton campaign faked about that incident told a very interesting story.  They said that Donald asked for these emails to be hacked, but they had long since been hacked.  They also said he was threatening national security.  Well, unless yoga class and wedding planning talk is a threat to national security, those emails were harmless...unless of course they contained classified information, which we all know they did.

 

The thing I find funny here is that you and others of your ilk were more concerned about who hacked the emails than the content of those emails that have been released.  It exposed a systematic, pervasive level of corruption and collusion between the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and outside PACs as the coordinated their attack on Trump.  .It completely exposed illegal activity in that interaction, and all you and others like you care about is blaming it on the Russians. 

 

The Russians spoke to both campaigns BEFORE election day.  That's a fact.  This wasn't some coordinated effort that was one sided as your Slate article attempted to spin it.  I'm sure both the Trump and Clinton campaigns spoke with several leaders around the world at some point as they built their case for winning the highest office in the land.  If they didn't, I'd consider that a dereliction of duty.  Keep your fingers crossed for something nefarious.  Ain't happening.

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