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The media and trump haters are focusing on the wrong thing.

Let's say for argument sake that Russia did do this for the reason of getting Trump elected. What then should we do?

1. We should work on our cybersecurity and focus on improving that.
2. As for Trump/Clinton. No change. Russia didn't hack votes and change anything. If true, all they did was release factual information on Clinton that hurt her. Makes one think more along lines of enemy of my enemy is my friend. Doesn't matter if it was the Russian's or ISIS. The emails were factual emails. We should be more worries about what the emails enclosed than who disclosed them.

As for the actual did Russia do it? I'm on the side of no. Well, I'm mixed. On the one hand I've yet to see any evidence to suggest Russia and Wikileaks says it was not Russia. Wikileaks has yet to lose my faith in anything they have done so far. They have been truthful. They claim it was an insider on the DNC.
Second, as for Russia swaying the election. If I recall correctly when Putin was going into power, the U.S. especially Hilarry Clinton was very much invested and tried to sway their election. If anything I would see this as more "payback/retaliation" than trying to make trump win. I'm sure, just like most every other nation in the world, they assumed Hillary would win, cause our media said it so loudly as fact, that they probably just wanted to weaken her and tarnish the future presidents name. Of course, this is Russia did do anything, which again as I said above. I'm more inclined to trust Wikileaks than our partisan gov orgs like the CIA.

But again, comes down to who cares. I do'n shoot the messenger. Should I punch my friend in teh face if he tells me my wife is cheating on me? Some may, but that would be anger directed at teh wrong party. Russia, or Wikileaks or whoever you want to blame, is not who you should be blaming. The content of the emails is what hurt Hillary. I don't care who released them.