It's Official, Russians Corrupted The Election

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Originally Posted by whell

The election got "manipulated"? Explain how? Which voting machines were compromised? Which election officials were paid off to compromise the votes or the voting process? In which cities or communities did corruption of the voting process occur? Who investigated and confirmed tampering with votes?

You've got the GOP talking points down pat. Nobody here on this board or on the national stage has stated anything about manipulating voting machines, etc. This has never been the issue, but it remains the GOP retort to consensus findings that Russia did indeed engage in a program of hacking, fake news, etc. to influence voters in Trump's favor (with possible Trump team collusion), the success of which cannot be determined exactly. However, there's little doubt that it occurred and you know it full well. It just pains you to admit that your Trumpenfuhrer got a push across the line by Russia.

Your retort is analogous to a baseball fan, who upon finding out that league investigators have concluded that his team took PED's, used corked bats and threw spitballs to help win the World Series, responds "Yeh, but they didn't hack the electronic scoreboard!"