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PatrickforO

(15,261 posts)
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 03:07 PM Mar 2017

HP:Bernie Sanders Campaign Faced A Fake News Tsunami. Where Did It Come From? The trolls set out to [View all]

distract and divide the invigorated left.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-fake-news-russia_us_58c34d97e4b0ed71826cdb36?63g&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

There were in fact a lot of anti-Clinton types of posts on sites I went to as a Bernie supporter. Some, sadly, were even parroted on here.

But here's the bottom line: most of these 'trolls' were from Eastern Europe. At first, they were anti-Clinton in an effort to stop some Sanders supporters from voting Clinton in the general, then they were anti-Clinton, presumably to encourage people to vote Trump in the general.

How much of this happened courtesy of Vladimir Putin? How extensive was Russian involvement in elevating the clown Trump to our highest office?

And, MOST importantly, how much did Trump, Pence, Bannon and the rest know?

Because if they knew ANYTHING, and did nothing, they they are guilty of treason.

The fact that a foreign power influenced one of our elections is NOT OK. We need to focus on this issue with single-minded intensity until we have the answers and have fixed the situation so it never happens again.

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