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In case you missed it, the former Director of National Intelligence is attempting to pop the ‘bubble’ of the so-called “fair and square” Trump Election “Win” … that is woven into our current national mythology.
On the Maddow Show last night James Clapper said, among other things, that more evidence has come to light in the last year, that makes the case for Russia’s efforts actually “swinging the Election” — all but undeniable ...
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“Of course, the Russian efforts affected the outcome," writes Clapper, as cited in a Washington Post review.
"Surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a Trump win. To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense and credulity to the breaking point. Less than eighty thousand votes in three key states swung the election. I have no doubt that more votes than that were influenced by this massive effort by the Russians.”
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Clapper warns of the threat posed by Trump’s dismissal of inconvenient facts as “fake news.”
“I don’t believe our democracy can function for long on lies, particularly when inconvenient and difficult facts spoken by the practitioners of truth are dismissed as ‘fake news,’ ” Clapper writes. "I know that the Intelligence Community cannot serve our nation if facts are negotiable.”
Newsweek — May 23, 2018
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper writes in his new book that he has "no doubt" Russians swung the 2016 presidential election to President Trump.
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"Less than 80,000 votes in three key states swung the election," the excerpt continues. "I have no doubt that more votes than that were influenced by this massive effort by the Russians."
TheHill — May 23, 2018
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow read a short excerpt from the book, available now, ahead of an interview with Clapper Tuesday night.
“As a private citizen, I had no doubt they influence at least some voters. Looking at the savvy ways Russians targeted specific user groups -- for instance, buying advertisements on Facebook promoting Clinton's support of the Black Lives Matter movement and ensuring those ads ran only on the pages of white conservative voters in swing states... Looking at how they created lies that helped Trump and hurt Clinton and promoted these falsehoods through social media and state-sponsored channels to the point that the traditional US media were unwittingly spreading Russian propaganda... and at how they ran a multifaceted campaign and sustained it at a high level from early 2015 until Election Day 2016... Of course, the Russian effort affected the outcome. Surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a Trump win. To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense, and credulity to the breaking point," Maddow read from Clapper's book.
RealClearPolitics — May 23, 2018
Now I’ve had my issues with Mr Clapper in the past during the Obama Administration, BUT what matters now is that this person with the means to know, is speaking the “unmentionable” Truth NOW — that Donald Trump did not “WIN” — “fairly and squarely” …
And if it were not for Russia’s covert and overt far-reaching interference in OUR democracy process, Hillary Clinton would be Madam President NOW, in that path not-traveled Universe.
And Donald Trump would be a washed-up, celebrity has-been — reliant on Foreign Oligarch’s money to maintain his air of privilege and superiority — you know, kind like he is, now …
So in effect our once future-path was taken from us. And those who’ve been “short-changed” by these conspiring Cheaters — should be way more mad about it, than we usually are.
We’ve been robbed. … Let that sink in.
America’s Intelligence agencies have been trying to “clue us in” to that stark cold Truth, for quite a while now.
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