The resounding winner of the popular vote for president is not pretending outside interference had nothing to do with her Electoral College loss. Speaking to donors on Thursday, she was blunt about the influence of both Russian hacking and FBI Director James Comey on her narrow loss in key swing states:
“Swing-state voters made their decisions in the final days breaking against me because of the F.B.I. letter from Director Comey,” she said.
The Russians, she said, sought to “undermine our democracy” through cyberattacks on Democratic targets.
And by the way, the press was complicit:
“Make no mistake, as the press is finally catching up to the facts, which we desperately tried to present to them during the last months of the campaign,” Mrs. Clinton told the group, which collectively poured roughly $1 billion into her effort. “This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although that may have added fuel to it. This is an attack against our country. We are well beyond normal political concerns here. This is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation.”
Pretty much. And the press continues to be way behind the ball in covering the magnitude of what’s going on.