It's well established that I oppose Hillary Clinton and refused to vote for her. I believe that Clinton in office would simply continue the negative trends that are destroying the country and our communities. Of course, Trump will actually accelerate those trends. But with the need for an utter change of direction, we're only measuring in terms of the speed towards destruction, not the path.
All that being said, Putin himself has made it abundantly clear that this is what he wants, and Russian propaganda has been heavily pro-Trump. The CIA has political appointees, but it's generally full of career officers who are about to have Trump in charge of them, and so there is little chance that they are going to lie to hurt him this late in the game when he is borderline unstainable, and they could be thrown into the bushes in a heartbeat. All indications make it appear highly likely to me that the Russians are indeed behind this.
Julian Assauge certainly has his own reasons for not appreciating Clinton, but how would he even know who sent him the links when the wikileaks submission is supposed to be a blind dropbox? Anyone who gave him the documents and let him know who they was either manipulating him, or he's lying. You don't go around admitting involvement in international crime to 3rd parties who might one day have to strike plea-deals.
The Russians aren't red anymore, so there's no "red scare". Russians have a clear, obvious motive for being bitter at the US-led coalition which is opposing their excursions into neighboring countries, their deteriorating human rights record, and leveling sanctions which are hurting their economy. What about Putin makes you think that he wants to take that lying down, or that he believes there are limits to spycraft that he's not willing to cross?
I find it striking that as recently as 2 year ago, 70% of the country from both political parties was unified in the idea that Putin was a dictator and disliked him. A few friendly tweets from Bush, and now 70% of Republicans have flipped sides and gotten right behind Putin, even in the midst of an invasion of his invasion of a sovereign nation. And the typical new accounts are showing up right on cue here on the Coli to advance that propaganda.
And the idea that the people rejected "them" is a half-hearted truth at best. Three million more people voted for a very poor candidate in Clinton than voted for Trump, it's just that our electoral system gives extra points to small states and treats million-vote margins the same as thousand-vote margins.
The evidence and logic at hand points one way. Trying to point to...noone....isn't very tenable unless a likely someone emerges.
