As the indictment points out:
1) No American so far was witting in any action. There may have been unknowing associations, but they didn't find that any American was "colluding" or cooperating in this scheme.
2) Russian interference clearly wasn't to "elect Trump", he wasn't their stooge or puppet, rather it was exactly what the Russians have done for decades, which is to sow dissension and mistrust in our system.
yes they ran things to support Trump, but they also ran things to support Sanders, and once Trump won they funded anti-trump rallies.
What the Russians wanted, and what they GOT thanks to our political divisiveness, was to sow mistrust and doubt and internal naval gazing to make us less able to act internationally.
This process started in 2014 before Trump even announced. They coordinated pro Trump AND anti Trump rallies, supported Bernie Sanders, etc.
This was just global trolling to make us less able to be united, and had nothing to do with Trump specifically. They'd have done the same thing if Bush had won the nomination, and in fact were doing it before Trump was even in the field.
When we buy into these wild conspiracy theories we're only helping the enemy, and IMO the DNC and the media have been willing and useful proxies for the Russian scheme. Any communication or "collusion" seems to be unwitting and certainly not some years long scheme to install a Russian puppet in the White House.
I'm sorry, b/c I know some here believe that, but it's just propaganda used by the DNC b/c they simply cannot accept they lost to this a-hole in an election. They thought they were a shoe in when Trump got the nomination and just can't accept that Clinton ran a bad campaign and was an even less appealing candidate than Trump.
The overall Russian spending seems to have been tiny compared to the billion dollars Hillary and and the hundreds of millions by Trump. We're talking about some tweets and a handful of rallies (both pro and anti). It isn't what determined the election.
Yes we should be mad the Russians are doing what they are doing, but it doesn't undermine the legitimacy of this election or Presidency, and THAT is what they wanted, to undermine the process.
The way to keep them from winning is to respect the election and the electorate and their decisions, the same thing Hillary demanded we do right up until the day she lost.
There was no "treason", other than the Clinton machine acting in every way possible to undermine the legitimacy of an American election. B/c they just can't accept they lost, examine why, learn from it and start working on the next election.
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