House Speaker Paul Ryan stood stone-faced behind House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as she addressed the new 115th Congress. When she was Secretary of State she accused Putin of having rigged the parliamentary elections in Russian Federation.
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Nunes said that Donald Trump, with his Cabinet picks, “is surrounding himself with very good people who understand the threat that Russian Federation poses”.
Sunday, top Trump advisor Reince Priebus said that the president-elect accepts the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russian Federation tried to meddle in the election, however Trump himself has not publicly said as much. “It’s still more denial about what took place”.
In conclusion, Russian Federation really did try to influence the 2016 USA election, and there’s every reason to believe it will happen again. “As the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Philadelphia”, Gallup reported at the time, “Hillary Clinton’s image is at its lowest point in the 24 years of her national career, with 38% of Americans viewing her favorably and 57% unfavorably”. They were behind the leaked emails of Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta and fake news and propaganda.
But Pelosi is not interested in nuance. While he softened that language somewhat after his briefing Friday, Trump insisted that any hacking had not affected the outcome of the election.
Conway was critical of House and Senate Democrats calling for an independent bipartisan commission to investigate the Russian hacks, although some Republicans have also pushed for such a commission, such as Sen.
“The president-elect is wrong about the capabilities question”, he continued.
Certainly, Americans have always argued that ideologically opposite politicians are wrong, or perhaps unqualified. The U.S. has good reasons to maintain a working relationship with Russian Federation in certain areas such as Syria, and Trump as an incoming president has a right to set his own agenda and even try his luck establishing a rapport.
It began most notably following the 2000 election, when Democrats convinced themselves George W. Bush actually lost Florida, and thus the election. After the aforementioned intelligence briefing, it will be important to see precautions by the USA and possible retaliation that President Obama ordered.
One thing Trump can bank on: Putin will try it again. We’ve had professional politicians lead our country for years, and have seen taxes rise, national debt increase, more government interference in our lives, more government interference in one’s religious beliefs, and more government interference in state’s rights. This, of course, relieves them of the burden of reflecting on the awfulness of their own candidate. This is a threat to liberal democracy around the world. As a result, we must act to ensure that those attempts are unsuccessful.
It’s unclear if the identical language was used by the Kremlin coincidentally or as a way to antagonize the USA intelligence services that issued the report.
“We still don’t know what data is really being used by those who present such unfounded accusations”, the Kremlin spokesman said.
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It required forgiving and forgetting the Russian invasion of Georgia that had occurred only in August of 2008, on the cusp of Obama’s election. It also comes ahead of a congressional effort to impose new sanctions on Russian Federation. “Donald Trump himself remained critically-minded about the intelligence services’ conclusions”, he said, adding that “this is clearly not the sort of reaction from Trump that Washington hawks were counting on”. Trump should learn from Obama’s failure, and not replicate it. After those failures, in order to delegitimize Trump, the Left, with Obama taking the lead, is now essentially claiming that Russian Federation “stole” the election from Hillary to elect Trump. It demanded believing that temporary Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, a supposed modernizer, was something other than a placeholder for the real power in the Kremlin – Putin.
