Exactly How Did Russia Swing the Election to Trump?

The Democrats and #NeverTrumpers are getting traction with the big lie that Trump is an agent of Vladimir Putin and that Russian intelligence manipulated the election to help Trump. How? By repeating the lie over and over. That’s the problem. If these sore losers were asked to produce facts, sources or evidence then the propaganda meme falls apart.

I am belaboring this point for a very simple reason–senior members of the intelligence community, including Jim Clapper and John Brennan and other senior leaders are engaged in a concerted international effort to discredit and delegitimize Donald Trump as President. If they could have their way, Trump would be forced to step down before taking the oath of office next Friday.

I realize how crazy it sounds to assert such a thing (i.e., that the leaders of our nation’s intelligence services are conspiring and scheming to try to prevent Donald Trump from taking office), but it is true. Here is the latest example courtesy of a report in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz:

Israeli intelligence officials are concerned that the exposure of classified information to their American counterparts under a Trump administration could lead to their being leaked to Russia and onward to Iran, investigative journalist Ronen Bergman reported by Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot on Thursday.

The intelligence concerns, which have been discussed in closed forums recently, are based on suspicions of unreported ties between President-elect Donald Trump, or his associates, and the government of Vladimir Putin in Moscow. . . .

American intelligence officials expressed despair at the election of Trump during a recent meeting with their Israeli counterparts, Bergman reported. They said that they believed that Putin had “leverages of pressure” over Trump, though they did not elaborate. The American media reported on Wednesday that Russia has embarrassing intelligence about the president-elect.

They “believe?” Intelligence officers are not supposed to be evangelical preachers. They should not be issuing calls to faith. They should not be encouraging people to “believe.” This should be about facts. What we know and what we do not know. But when in doubt, plant disinformation and lies, that is how the DNI’s Jim Clapper and the CIA’s John Brennan are trying to destroy Donald Trump and his legitimacy to serve as President.

The level of hysteria is growing with each passing day. Just consider the following comment from former acting Director of the CIA (and Hillary partisan) Mike Morell:

“In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation,” former acting CIA Director Michael Morell wrote in the New York Times. An “unwitting agent” or “asset” in spy parlance is an individual who serves the interests of a foreign government without fully realizing it, or, what Lenin liked to call, a “useful idiot.” A “witting” asset is one who knows fully what he is doing.

James Bruno, a guy who touts himself as a former diplomat, writes:

Whether therefore Trump is a witting or unwitting asset of the Russian Federation, the bottom line is this: by turning away intelligence briefings, by inexplicably attacking his country’s intelligence agencies and by his open bromance with Putin, the President-elect is putting the nation’s national security at grave risk. Or, as “Iron Feliks” Dzerzhinsky said, “Our enemies are now suppressed and are in the kingdom of the shadows.”

Pay careful attention to the language, especially “BROMANCE WITH PUTIN.” Where have we heard that? Oh yeah, let me take you back to a December 2015 email between Brent Budowsky (a Democrat operative) and Hillary’s campaign manager, John Podesta:

Putin did not agree to anything about removing Assad and continues to bomb the people we support. We pushed the same position in 2012 (Geneva 1, which HRC knows all about) and Geneva 2 in 2014. Odds that Putin agrees to remove Assad are only slightly better than the odds the College of Cardinals chooses me to someday succeed Pope Francis. Best approach is to slaughter Donald for his bromance with Putin, but not go too far betting on Putin re Syria.

It is not a mere coincidence that the Clinton campaign were talking early on about using the Putin angle to attack Trump. Why? Because Putin and Trump shared a similar view about the futility and stupidity of U.S. policy in Syria.

If you are going to buy into the lie that Russia interfered in the U.S. election in order to favor Trump, you must be able to show that media narrative generated by the emails leaked to Wikileaks dominated the news coverage and generated a disproportionate amount of bad press for Hillary. I have an experiment for you. Go do a google search using the term “Hillary Clinton” and then the term “Donald Trump.” Limit or narrow the search by specifying specific dates, e.g. 7-8 October 2016. If you do that you will discover that the coverage for Donald Trump was overwhelmingly negative while the coverage for Hillary was generally upbeat.

What’s my point? If the so-called “negative news” generated from the cables released by Wikileaks was so powerful, you should have seen it reflected in the coverage by the news and the themes on the internet. Here are the top ten Google Hits for “Hillary Clinton” for the period 4 thru 6 November 2016 (note, not one of them deals with any issue raised in Wikileaks):

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