@Espiritus_Corvus you had said “some of these same people”, which implied a level of personal / named specificity somewhat higher than “the same people”, which could have meant “the Russian government in general”. Are you now taking that specificity back?
Look, I don’t doubt for a second that the Russians (and the Chinese, and the British, Israelis, French, and any other country with a credible offshore espionage system) wants to surreptitiously learn what they can about our government systems, processes, personnel … and influence things in their favor if they can. We do it, too – everywhere. (Sometimes it’s not even clandestine, as the likely illegal ways that Barry tried to influence the last round of elections in Israel.) But that’s how major country politics is played. No one is “hands off” the other guys’ elections. (And I do find it interesting that no one has said much of anything about the Saudis financing nearly 20% of Clinton’s record-breaking campaign spending. I wonder what the thread would be like if half of that cash had gone to Trump’s campaign instead.)
The difference we’re seeing in this discussion, though, is the attempt to smear Trump – since he obviously benefited from whatever was done to help the DNC shoot themselves in the feet during our national election – and to assume without any evidence that he “must have been in bed with the Russians.”
I’m no fan of Donald Trump, but I’m even more opposed to lynchings than I am to him.