phiwum
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Hmm? Every time I see comments like this, I find myself wondering a little. It's been pretty clear, this entire time, that Americans, especially the Republican Party (but certainly not only them) are responsible for, say, at least 95% of the weighted reasons that we have Trump. The Russian contribution was a largely illegal contribution and very likely was enough to tip the scales to Trump's victory. It got attention precisely because it was illegal, foreign, and extremely... unseemly, as it should. Trump and campaign acted in an extremely suspicious manner on that front, so that, too, received attention, as it should.
None of that changes that Americans were responsible for just about all the main reasons that Trump won, of course, and when I see comments like the quoted, I wonder what, exactly, the point is? Pretty much everyone who has a problem with the Russian attacks on our Democracy is well aware that Americans are the major reason for and bear responsibility for Trump's victory, as far as I've seen, and that most of this situation came to be via perfectly legal methods.
Well said.