2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWHY VLADIMIR PUTIN’S RUSSIA IS BACKING DONALD TRUMP - Newsweek
BY KURT EICHENWALD ON 11/4/16 AT 5:50 AM
I'm just going to post this one paragraph...LOTS more at the link including in depth reporting of how Russian disinformation is effecting the election and why Putin is so set on Hillary's defeat.
"...Trumps behavior, however, has at times concerned the Russians, leading them to revise their hacking and disinformation strategy. For example, when Trump launched into an inexplicable attack on the parents of a Muslim-American soldier who died in combat, the Kremlin assumed the Republican nominee was showing himself psychologically unfit to be president and would be forced by his party to withdraw from the race. As a result, Moscow put its hacking campaign temporarily on hold, ending the distribution of documents until Trump stabilized, both personally and in the polls, according to reports provided to Western intelligence..."
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia-hillary-clinton-united-states-europe-516895
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Can't read til later, though. Gotta go out and catch the last hours of sunlight. Bookmarking.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Persondem
(1,936 posts)Post it everywhere you can. K & R
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Much appreciated!
triron
(22,006 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)his supporters!
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)when the alternative is pretty much crazy. Putin must be pretty confidant that they can keep little Donald in line, if he would willingly help that whacko get elected.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)They belatedly realized Trump's so unstable that Prez Trump, imagining he'll be "leader of the world or something," as he put it, would pose a serious danger to them.