If we still lived in a democracy, everything that’s come out would be enough to start impeachment proceedings so Trump can have his fair trial in the Senate, but since we’re a Banana Republic now, I guess not.

Signed: someone that didn’t vote for either of these two fucksticks.

For the troll complaining about Obama:

You’ll have to be more specific about the “report” you’re referencing, since various alt-right “news” sources have referenced “studies” alleging anywhere between 5,000 and 40,000 “illegal voters” in Virginia. Hard to keep track of all the white panic.

The Russians voted online. The “illegals” voted in your head. Ortega was a Republican, by the way.

Critical thinking isn’t your strong suit, is it?

You read this article about one, potentially failed effort of many by the Russians to influence our election, and the internal voice in your head still heard “Looks like Russia had nothing to do with our election!”?

Seriously. All the Trumpers have are sad deflections and “FAKE NEWS!” now. They’re just delusional. It’s not like these revelations are going to stop or someone is going to prove that the FBI, CIA, NSA, Congressional Investigation committees and God knows who else are just making this sh@t up.

BS, Komrad. All the Clinton-deflection in the world doesn’t change the fact that the Russias’ role in influencing this election is coming to light. In addition to the active hacking, there are too many connections between close members of Trump’s campaign and Russia to ignore or just be simple…

How’s the weather in Moscow?

When we first started talking about Russia influencing the election, the Trumptards said that things like the email leaks didn’t count, only actual vote tampering was a crime in their eyes. Now we’re finding out that the Russians actually did attempt to hack the voting machines and change votes. As far as we know they…

It’s discredited BS:

There’s proof the Russians tried to influence the election. There is proof that they have paid trolls to influence your opinions. And your comment is proof that their efforts worked.

You’re a moron.

Honestly, you have to expect the Russians to be Russians.

Something tells me you arent at all concerned about proof for things like Benghazi, even when it isnt taken out of context.......

Obama laid some pretty harsh sanctions on Russia right at the end of his term that are still in place today in response to this. This is one of the main issues driving the Russia investigation, it really looks like the Trump campaign was talking to Russia about lifting those sanctions prior to both the election and…

Why do I never hear people say this out loud? The news covers this a piece here, a piece there. It gets wrapped up in partisan bickering. But put the whole thing together:

Those with the power to do something legislatively will not because it helps them. This fits with the Republican strategy of government mistrust and loss in faith of the democratic process.

I doubt that we, the public, know 25% of the extent of the Russian operation against us. We’ll learn it started much earlier than has been reported, that it involved several layers beyond email hacking and Twitterbots, that it certainly had American participants (possibly outside the Trump campaign as well as inside),…

He wants Americans to mistrust our political processes (more than we already do) and begin to lose trust in our democratic republic as a system. That, and an embattled, off-balance American president is less of a formidable foe to Russia’s aspirations to once again be a world power.