Quote:robkelk wrote:My take is that Putin wanted chaos to weaken Clinton once she was elected. I do not believe that any of the russian intelligence services had Trump winning in their middle case scenarios. I had been hearing from GOP mouthpieces that Trump would had won even anyway. But given he won Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida by 80,000 votes total the suspicion is already there. Unspoken, but still there. And Trump's histronincs about it only increases the suspicion. He is going to do something brash and possibly dangerous once he gets inaugurated. If only to prove that he didn't need help from the russians to win.
The alternate views depend on one possibly-faulty assumption: that Putin wanted Trump to become President.
If Putin wanted to say "your electoral process is as bad as mine," then what he did makes perfect sense.
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