What if the Russians didn't hack the DNC?

I could readily buy that Russia influenced the election through misleading and false news, just because I take it as given that a great many Americans are dumb.

Even if we just accept it as a hypothetical it’s largely an irrelevant side show.

It doesn’t negate any of the evidence about Russian hacking efforts directed at state level election sites to include voter databases.

Evidence of a Russian disinformation campaign via social media, in accordance with practices we’ve seen them employ against our NATO allies before, doesn’t disappear.

It doesn’t negate allegations that the Russians were behind the public release of the information. Whether it was an inside job or a hack the Russians could have a central role in both the collection and dissemination of the emails for their own ends.

It doesn’t negate the issue of the meeting between Trump campaign staff and the Russians to gather information that was never specified as being a result of those hacks.

The DNC email server information has no bearing on allegations of improper channeling of Russian funds to the Trump campaign.

Yes, it’s too bad that the DNC obstructed the opportunity to have one. The refusal to allow the server to be independently examined certainly suggests one of two possibilities: Either the server would clear the Russians and the Trump campaign, or there’s evidence on there of the DNC doing something even worse.

*‘Here, in fact, we have the ultimate in cynicism which reveals the irrefutable guilt of the accused – I refer to his so-called escape from captivity and his “voluntary” return to his country! Who would believe that a man who has been offered “gold and any horse thou wilt” would abandon all that and voluntarily return home? How could he possibly do a thing like that?’

‘There can, surely be only one explanation: Prince Igor was recruited by the Polovtsian intelligence service and sent back to undermine the Kievan state…!’
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**In The First Circle ** — The Mock Trial

The Russia thing hasn’t been interesting in many months. Not sure if it matters much either way. If there wasn’t a hack then Trump’s presidency is still in shambles, and it doesn’t preclude him from being involved with Russia in other ways. The biggest effect might be if the info was leaked by a Bernie sympathizer, then America won’t get UHC for another 50 years.

Oddly enough, this entire paragraph is evidence-free. Whenever you’re ready to support it with, you know, evidence…otherwise it’s yet more hot air.