There are only modest partisan differences in these perceptions, with Democrats and Democratic leaners somewhat more likely to say Trump’s views are nearly all conservative (22% vs. 11% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents). One would think this would settle matters.
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And then there are those among the Trump loyalists who buy into clearly insane ideas, like the fool who shot up a pizza shop in Washington, D.C., because he believed fake news stories that had identified the restaurant as the headquarters for a child sex ring run by Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump and Bill Clinton sniped at each other.
“He doesn’t know much”.
Obama and other Democrats scrutinizing Russian Federation appear to be motivated by political opposition to Trump, who has made favorable and often controversial statements about Putin and the USA relationship with Russian Federation. But now, Hillary Clinton is saying this: ‘Vladimir Putin himself directed the covert cyber attacks against our electoral system, against our democracy, apparently because he has a personal beef against me’.
The reality is Americans have a beef with the Clintons – they’re sick and exhausted of them.
Michael McFaul, the USA ambassador to Moscow from 2011 to 2014 and now a Russian Federation scholar at Stanford University, says any arrangement along those lines “would be a bad deal for America and a fantastic victory for Putin”. More recently, the CIA has said it has “high confidence” that the Russian government meant to help the campaign of Donald Trump, based on intelligence suggesting that the Kremlin’s hacking efforts were disproportionately aimed at the Democratic Party.
In October, U.S. intelligence officials said they believed Russian Federation was behind the hacking of the Democratic Party files with the goal of disrupting the election and undermining faith the U.S. electoral system.
Possibly the most controversial part of Obama’s press conference – where the president actually says what types of actions the United States could take against Russian Federation. In Wisconsin’s statehouse, a heckler shouted, “We’re all going to go to war and die thanks to you”, during the formal meeting of the Electoral College.
Never mind, let’s stay focused on Obama’s Russian Federation hysteria.
Medvedev assured Obama that he would pass this information along to the incoming president, Vladimir Putin. And while millions of Americans are doubtless more than happy to have Election Day well behind them, they can still plan on hearing still more about the election in the coming days or even weeks.
If Comey could complete a second investigation into Hillary’s private email use, reading through thousands of emails in mere days, surely Obama could have investigated the hacking swiftly. That goes for voters, media figures and activists who consider themselves to be on Team D or Team R. That’s part of the hyper-partisanship that has gripped politics since the Newt Gingrich era.
Throughout the campaign, Clinton was viewed somewhat more warmly than Trump, and today slightly fewer give her cold ratings than did so before the election.
Do Lessig’s boasts count as “fake news” under Facebook’s standards?
But even before his inauguration, Trump has already moved the starting point of any “reset” partway toward Putin’s position, with nothing offered in exchange. In foreign policy, Trump has made statements about Taiwan that amount to changing American policy supporting one-China in place since 1979. Trump has cast doubt on reports that the intelligence community concluded that Moscow intervened in the US election to help him win.
Writer Glenn Greenwald similarly debunked the media rush to proclaim fact-free conclusions as if they were certainties, in “Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence”. There is a difference.
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Shortly before the presidential election, Donald Trump publicly announced that the election was rigged.
