# WaPo: Trump was the Manchurian Candidate **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 10, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322 "2016-12-10T03:02:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322/21 "2016-12-12T19:12:12Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Only a matter of time before someone hollers “False flag!”. > > :rolleyes: I think John Bolton is already floating that balloon (or turd). He’s saying Obama did it. Never mind, I got beat to it. ---
**Author:** ![Neo-Calredic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@Neo-Calredic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neo-Calredic)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322/22 "2016-12-12T19:19:03Z")
I honestly don’t think a lot of Trump supporters would care even if this was proven true beyond a shadow of a doubt. Many of them would gladly help set the country on fire as long as they got to watch the liberals/Muslims/illegal immigrants/etc burn alongside them. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322/23 "2016-12-12T19:59:39Z")
Trump has rather obviously been in Putin’s back pocket all along and people still voted for him. Why this article makes any difference I cannot imagine. Trumpists have an alternate set of facts where stuff like that is just ignored and there are child sex rings run out of pizza joints. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322/24 "2016-12-13T16:24:48Z")
I’m only surprised that people are finally cluing in that Russia hacked America’s democracy. For the past year and a half every right-winger I see on social media has often been posting sheer nonsense that that ultimately comes from Russian propaganda sites – but with the serial numbers filed off and reposted to make it look like it comes from red-blooded Muricans and Canajuns. At this point I don’t know who is dumber: the Americans who voted for Trump thinking he would help them, or the millions who concluded Clinton was just as bad and so did not vote at all. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322/25 "2016-12-13T16:44:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Blank Slate** : > > Out of the 57 presidential elections in US history, only 11 contests were won by a smaller percentage of the Electoral College than Trump/Clinton. Both of Obama’s victories were bigger than Trumps, just for starters. There you go, then, Trump’s election was one of the 46 biggest electoral college victories in history. (I’ve never been fond of the “one of the biggest” phrasing. One of the how many biggest?) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322/26 "2016-12-13T16:52:45Z")
How comforting it must be to reflect that you didn’t lose as badly as usual. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322/27 "2016-12-13T19:17:40Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > IIRC, the earliest reports of _skullduggeriski_ centered around Wikileaks of the DNC dissing Bernie Sanders. Which would mean to me that whomsoever wanted to exacerbate the conflict in the Dem Party between Clinton and Bernie. > > Did it work? Dunno, really, my personal impression is that it did at least to some degree, I recall reading any number of Bernie people referencing it as proof that Bernie wasn’t getting a fair hearing. And what of Donna Brazile feeding debate questions to Hillary? It may not have made a difference but they seemed to have tried to fix the primary at several junctures that we know about. Why is it that when we see a Charleston cop shoot a black man and then dump a taser on the corpse, we assume that this shit happens all the time but we just don’t catch it but when we catch Hillary’s camp trying to fix the primary, we assume its a one off despite the fact that there is evidence that its not. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322/28 "2016-12-13T19:21:00Z")
> [@Neo-Calredic](#): > > I honestly don’t think a lot of Trump supporters would care even if this was proven true beyond a shadow of a doubt. Many of them would gladly help set the country on fire as long as they got to watch the liberals/Muslims/illegal immigrants/etc burn alongside them. Pretty much… and would call the rest of us traitors for not falling in line with them. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322/29 "2016-12-13T19:24:01Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > And what of Donna Brazile feeding debate questions to Hillary? > > It may not have made a difference but they seemed to have tried to fix the primary at several junctures that we know about. Why is it that when we see a Charleston cop shoot a black man and then dump a taser on the corpse, we assume that this shit happens all the time but we just don’t catch it but when we catch Hillary’s camp trying to fix the primary, we assume its a one off despite the fact that there is evidence that its not. It’s just one attempt at false equivalency after another with you, isn’t it. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322/30 "2016-12-13T19:34:02Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > How comforting it must be to reflect that you didn’t lose as badly as usual. > > Regards, > Shodan It actually is pretty comforting, especially when we go into the state details and see how frickin’ close it was, since it demonstrates that we Democrats were really, really close to winning, even with (what is clear now, though it wasn’t before) a very poor candidate. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322/31 "2016-12-13T19:42:54Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim… Penguins are pretty confused, then. But not as much as Trump supporters who bought his promises. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wapo-trump-was-the-manchurian-candidate/774322.md?page=1)