White House propaganda: Vlad Putin was Trump's ace in the hole

The White House has strongly suggested that Donald Trump was the beneficiary of Russian meddling in the US election.

Let's suppose the CIA is correct and the Russians tried to influence the election.  What exactly did they do?

So far, the only likely scenario is that a Russian or eastern European cyber hacker copied and published some DNC emails.  There's no indication that they did anything more nefarious, such as actually alter the election results.

Now, given that a recount has already fizzled, we can safely dismiss the notion that the results are wrong.  Trump was elected, fair and square.

So we're left with one thing:  the leaked emails.  The emails are the truth; it's what the DNC really said, what they really thought.  That's hardly a "hack"; it's simply exposing some deplorable back room kingmaker politics.  It could also have been done by an insider who was disgusted with the immorality of the Democratic leadership.

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