[Update] CIA & FBI Report: Russia did things to help get Trump elected

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ArnoldRimmer said:
Even if this should be true: This is so full of double standards, it's quite amusing:
- Almost every "western" country has tried to influence the election by actively supporting Clinton and vilifying Trump
- The US is constantly trying to influence elections all around the globe, trying to get the candidate/party elected that they prefer and trying to get rid of candidates/parties that they don't like
- Leaking information that is believed to help achieve such goals is a typical for the US as well, actually, there's probably no other country using that strategy so heavily. The difference is that the US usually doesn't need to leak to Wikileaks, they usually leak to journalists directly.

 

UnderstatedCornHole said:

ArnoldRimmer said:
Even if this should be true: This is so full of double standards, it's quite amusing:
- Almost every "western" country has tried to influence the election by actively supporting Clinton and vilifying Trump
- The US is constantly trying to influence elections all around the globe, trying to get the candidate/party elected that they prefer and trying to get rid of candidates/parties that they don't like
- Leaking information that is believed to help achieve such goals is a typical for the US as well, actually, there's probably no other country using that strategy so heavily. The difference is that the US usually doesn't need to leak to Wikileaks, they usually leak to journalists directly.

Smoke me a kipper! This! ^

It's absurd the lens that people look through to condem Trump, and give Hillary a pass because they've been brainwashed by the MSM to believe this tripe.

 

Every country that endorsed Hillary, did so formally either in the papers, or on TV, with no back handed tricks.

What did Russia do? Right now they're denying everything, meanwhile all the evidence from the CIA ongoing investigation and reports says otherwise.

Of cause USA did things either by force or through diplomatic means to influence elections to establish democracy on other lands, but that is not what this thread is about.