old salt wrote:I take it you've yet to locate any Russian social media claiming the USSR invaded Afghanistan to get Chechen terrorists.
What's silly are yours & Maddow's whacky conspiracy theories.
I'm prepared to believe anything about Trump & his cronies, if & when there's evidence, but too much of this stuff is wishful thinking & just trying too hard.
Really? I'm supposed to search for Russian troll propaganda in social media?
Come on, did you know what troll garbage was Russian during 2016? I sure as heck didn't.
Heck, it took the FBI quite awhile to figure it out as well. Facebook and Twitter etc were downplaying it as well, but ultimately we learned that it was a huge amount, really insidious. Any chance Trump "follows" any of those trolls who are still out there?
BTW, pretty darn good refutation of Trump's BS by Liz Cheney just now on "This Week".
You say you're "willing to believe", yet you just above said there's NO evidence of collusion, when there clearly is evidence of attempted collusion and cover-up of same.
I won't speak for how "whacky" Maddow's speculations are or are not, but
my simple hypothesis is that Trump is dishonest, corrupt, delusional, and an ego-maniac. And the Russians used, and are still using, those four factors to their advantage. Beginning with the financial years ago. Likewise, Trump has always surrounded himself with dishonest and corrupt toadies, and the Russians and others have used them as well.
Exactly how that all played out we are learning in pieces, but I don't think this is likely to wrap up with Trump not being shown to have been aware of various lies he was telling about his relationships with Russians, including his knowledge of their efforts to manipulate the election in favor of him, damaging Clinton, and exacerbating political divides. Indeed, he and his closest aides welcomed those efforts and then covered them up.
Flynn, (I think) also had a worldview that was
so focused on his hate of Islamists that he wrongly conflated those radicals and their ideology into a War of Civilizations that overwhelmed his comprehension of other threats. Add to that his anger at those who disagreed, and his seeking of personal financial gain, and then his willingness to lie in furtherance of this goals, and he was sucked into that corrupt orbit. A shame, but this is Trumpworld.