# New cock-up theory on Russia and Trump/Clinton

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**Created:** [March 3, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cock-up-theory-on-russia-and-trump-clinton/781314 "2017-03-03T17:03:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cock-up-theory-on-russia-and-trump-clinton/781314/13 "2017-03-03T20:21:06Z")

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> [@voltaire](#):
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> Not that new… To quote myself from 12/11/16:

You beat me to it back then – but, FWIW, I heard it somewhere _else_ back then:

> [@"Is it that the Dems don't understand white, working-class America?" No, that's not it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-that-the-dems-dont-understand-white-working-class-america-no-thats-not-it/773291/455):
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> FWIW, one of the talking heads on the teevee was opining this past week that the Russians – like virtually everyone else, pollsters and bookies and so on – figured Hillary was going to win; and figured it’d be in Russia’s best interest if she won a bruising contest that left her as weak as possible vis-a-vis the opposition that’d naturally try to block her at every turn the way they did Obama.
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> If so, then they wanted – or _were resigned to_ – a Clinton presidency, and merely wanted her to take office with a minimal mandate amidst bad publicity.

Point being, yeah, not new.

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