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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
I thought that the New Yorker article on this subject was spectacular in that regard: it made no reaches, just presented the facts as they are known.
I doubt Trump is Putin's lapdog, but there is real evidence that the Russians meddled in an American election. That's insane to me, and needs to be investigated.
That said, I hope we find out that the peeing tapes are real.
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Yeah. I doubt that Putin would specifically recruit a buffoon like Trump who few gave any chance of winning when he entered the race. Instead, I suspect that Russia decided to screw with Hillary as payback for her hawkish stance on Russia and the meddling that the US did in Russian politics while she was Secretary of State. I'm not sure that the Russian government ever thought Trump could win but instead just wanted to make things miserable for her.
The two key unanswered questions are whether the Trump campaign specifically coordinated with Russia on the release of any hacked materials and/or whether the campaign made any promises to Russia in exchange for the hacking. I still don't think there's been evidence of either of those, but that's what it would likely take to actually rise to impeachment level.