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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
In regards to the Russians I mean, IF they're responsible it's a pretty big leap that the release of podesta's emails effected voting patterns in any meaningful way. Unless they can find solid evidence that Trump enlisted their help, which would be hard to find given how politicized the USA is these days.
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The focus has been on Russia's interference, not many are accusing Trump of being complicit.
And I don't think it's unreasonable at all to think Podesta's emails had a meaningful impact. The whole Pizza place child trafficking conspiracy is rooted in that and look how significant and persistent that's been. Some posters here (and lots online) think the whole election campaign narrative was planned in advance and orchestrated by the media and Clinton, and use the Podesta emails as evidence. "News" stories about Podesta and Clinton being satanists because of a dinner invitation in Podesta's emails had huge circulations. Fake news outstripped real news on Facebook leading up to the election date, the amount of attention these kinds of stories were getting on social media was huge.
Add in that Trump won by a 100,000 votes... I don't think you can point at any one thing and blame it (it's too complex for that), but I also don't think they can be discounted either.