In this case, for once, I agree with all the
'grilling' of the President.
Trump has extremely limited humility, and this is one case where he should stop trying to explain things, and eat some extra, humble pie.
I mean,
it's really as simple as this ...
- Trump is tired of people saying he only got elected because of the Russians, because it de-legitimizes not only his victory, but our democracy. But that doesn't mean the Russians didn't interfere.
And in that regard, I have defended the President because the 2012 election had quite a bit to do with not only control of social media -- including 1M opt-ins leading to all 2.2B profiles being accessed -- but the Russians did very much interfere in 2012 as well.
But Trump trying to downplay Russia is not working, and he did look pretty softball. And I am one who has a lot of respect for Oliver Stone, and the revival of the "Russian scare," specially after the Obama 2012 comment about foreign policy.
The Democratic party loved it when they benefited from Russian interference, which has been steadily increasing since before the Georgian War a dozen years ago. But when that changed, and they weren't the "best non-interference candidates" during and after the Ukanian War, of course someone else was going to benefit.
And the Obama campaign of 2012 already showed how to get everything needed. Cambridge Analytica wasn't even needed, and that is still a very loose, guilt-by-brief-association, argument. Let's separate interference from the Trump campaign actually being involved.
Which means, please, the joke/rhetoric comment about telling the Russians to look into Hillary's e-mails would be as useful as the 3rd base coach yelling
"Steal." It won't even work the first time, not even with a 'check off,' so one would never do it in the first place.