GOP leaders definitely knew about hacking — did they benefit too?
Via Salon, Digby writes:
GOP leaders definitely knew about hacking — did they benefit too?
McClatchy also reported that the Justice Department is looking into “whether Trump’s campaign pointed Russian cyber operatives to certain voting jurisdictions in key states – areas where Trump’s digital team and Republican operatives were spotting unexpected weakness in voter support for Hillary Clinton.” That’s an issue I’ve written about previously here on Salon, based on some post-election investigative reporting by the New York Times.
This raises once again the question of just what was going on in the Republican Party during this period. After all, it wasn’t just Donald Trump who benefited from Russian hacking. The GOP-dominated House majority was a major beneficiary as well.
Remember, the congressional leadership knew in 2015 that it was happening. Reuters has reported that the so-called Gang of Eight (Republican leaders in Congress) was told that Russian hackers were attacking the Democratic Party but that the information was so top secret they could not share it. As we know, hackers attacked the Democratic National Committee and the personal email of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. But they also hacked the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and information gleaned from that hack was put to use in some 2016 campaigns for Congress.
Also recall that one month before Donald Trump Jr. took that meeting with the Russian lawyer, House Majority Leader Kevin “loose lips” McCarthy was talking about Trump’s connections to Vladimir Putin in a room full of Republicans
All because of Mitten’s tough loss in 2012. Amazing if he had won, how that tangent universe would speak to us differently.
GOP-dominated House majority was a major beneficiary as well
More accurately, the Koch Dons benefited – Republicans are Koch Mob apparat.
Palin’s talk radio style brainsaladisms were the pioneering aspect of McCain/Palin ’08.
The most notable “innovation” of Romney/Ryan ’12 was their copious exhibitionist lying.
I believe Romney/Ryan were the icebreaker for Bannon and Putin’s continuous fakenews/fakeprez “innovation” in 2015, 2016, and ongoing (“we were always at War on America”) .
Russian hacking? What Russian hacking? Any evidence? And don’t tell me a consensus of 17 US intelligence agencies none of which reviewed any evidence merely taking the word of the discredited Crowdstrike. In fact the only documented case of hacking was by DHS trying to get into various state voter registration databases.
As for hacking the voting machines, which are not internet connected making it difficult for the dastardly russians to penetrate them, the software is proprietary and, one suspects, modifiable for the right people and/or price – especially when there is no audit trail. That’s what everybody should be concerned about.
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