Russian Hackers May Have Affected 2016 Election Vote Totals

[Synthaholic]

After all the Trumpers assured us that the vote totals weren't hacked.


The Hard Truth Keeps Trickling Out, Little by Little

 

[Snouter]

The butthurt folks are back to the fake news "Russia meddling" hoax yet again that the Swamp came up with. Just apply Prep H and move on!

 

[Fenton Lum]

And they have the best hookers.

The butthurt folks are back to the fake news "Russia meddling" hoax yet again that the Swamp came up with. Just apply Prep H and move on!

Thank Jeebus Don drained the swamp.

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... just before publication of this New Yorker article. Must be "fake" n shit.


Icahn’s role was novel. He would be an adviser with a formal title, but he would not receive a salary, and he would not be required to divest himself of any of his holdings, or to make any disclosures about potential conflicts of interest. “Carl Icahn will be advising the President in his individual capacity,” Trump’s transition team asserted.


In the months after the election, the stock price of CVR, Icahn’s refiner, nearly doubled—a surge that is difficult to explain without acknowledging the appointment of the company’s lead shareholder to a White House position. The rally meant a personal benefit for Icahn, at least on paper, of half a billion dollars. There was an expectation in the market—an expectation created, in part, by Icahn’s own remarks—that, with Trump in the White House and Icahn playing consigliere, the rules were about to change, and not just at the E.P.A. Icahn’s empire ranges across many economic sectors, from energy to pharmaceuticals to auto supplies to mining, and all of them are governed by the types of regulations about which he would now potentially be advising Trump.


Janet McCabe, who left the E.P.A. in January, and now works at the Environmental Law and Policy Center, told me, “I’m not naïve. People in business try to influence the government. But the job of the government is to serve the American people, not the specific business interests of the President’s friends. To think that you have somebody with that kind of agenda bending the President’s ear is troubling.”


Conflicts of interest have been a defining trait of the Trump Administration. The President has not only refused to release his tax returns; he has declined to divest from his companies, instead putting them in a trust managed by his children. Questions have emerged about the ongoing business ties of his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who, since Trump took office, have reaped nearly two hundred million dollars from the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., and from other investments. Although Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” he has assembled a Cabinet of ultra-rich Americans, including two billionaires: Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, and Wilbur Ross, the Secretary of Commerce.


But Icahn is worth more than the Trump family and all the members of the Cabinet combined—and, with no constraint on his license to counsel the President on regulations that might help his businesses, he was poised to become much richer. Robert Weissman, who runs the watchdog group Public Citizen, told me, “This kind of self-enrichment and influence over decision-making by an individual mogul who is simultaneously inside and outside the Administration is unprecedented. In terms of corruption, there’s nothing like it. Maybe ever.” In conversations with me, financiers who have worked with Icahn described his appointment as a kind of corporate raid on Washington. One said, “It’s the cheapest takeover Carl’s ever done.”


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[Pop23]

Statistically, Clinton needed a 3.7% national lead entering Election Day to have a 50% chance at the electoral college. Most polls showed her up less than 3%.

I posted this three weeks in advance of the election.

So did the RUSSIANS hack the national polls as well?

If not, then this is simply stupid.

 

[Stratford57]

Obama encouraged all the illegals to vote, those 3 millions of "popular votes" must have been illegal votes.

Make your citizens show ID for voting and only after that blame Russia or somebody else. Otherwise you look pretty stupid, liberals.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

After all the Trumpers assured us that the vote totals weren't hacked.


The Hard Truth Keeps Trickling Out, Little by Little

 

[Shrimpbox]

Didn't obama assure us the elections couldn't be hacked?

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Hard truth from a Twitter post. Sounds legit to me.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Didn't obama assure us the elections couldn't be hacked?

He did... the stance of his administration was consistent: Do not do anything to undermine the election by undermining the voting process. They even kept info on trump under their hats until after the election.

 

[Shrimpbox]

They even knew about Russian interference way before the election and did nothing. When are the left ever going to have an argument they can win?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

"Did nothing".... not so. They immediately instituted a plan to protect our voting systems. What, exactly, would you have had them do? And please spare me the left/right nonsense, thank you in advance.

 

[Lewdog]

The article is from June. Why is it all that big of a deal now?

 

[eagle1462010]

Maybe
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[Call Sign Chaos]

After all the Trumpers assured us that the vote totals weren't hacked.


The Hard Truth Keeps Trickling Out, Little by Little


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According to anonymous Obama officials, GFYS.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

After all the Trumpers assured us that the vote totals weren't hacked.


The Hard Truth Keeps Trickling Out, Little by Little


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That would be so awesome if true. Putin can wipe the Dems down to a small handful of seats in Congress.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The article is from June. Why is it all that big of a deal now?

I commented because the topic (if not the article) is still relevant. Unless you think the Russians have learned their lesson and plan to play nice form now on.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

After all the Trumpers assured us that the vote totals weren't hacked.


The Hard Truth Keeps Trickling Out, Little by Little


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That would be so awesome if true. Putin can wipe the Dems down to a small handful of seats in Congress.

How treasonous of you ....

 

[IsaacNewton]

After all the Trumpers assured us that the vote totals weren't hacked.


The Hard Truth Keeps Trickling Out, Little by Little


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If this comes out to be true you have a direct act of war against the world's main democracy. I noticed Putin is skipping the UN meeting where all the heads of state gather to kick things off. Whatever this dick has up his sleeve isn't going to end well for Russia.

 

[Bush92]

After all the Trumpers assured us that the vote totals weren't hacked.


The Hard Truth Keeps Trickling Out, Little by Little


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Clinton campaign should not have invited them in.

 

[Lewdog]

The article is from June. Why is it all that big of a deal now?

I commented because the topic (if not the article) is still relevant. Unless you think the Russians have learned their lesson and plan to play nice form now on.

IF it were true, with this being September and this article coming out in June, we would have heard a hell of a lot more about it. No one has said a peep. I'm guessing the OP just happened across this article and posted it without checking the date.