April 19, 2019 5:30 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON—Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report is unambiguously clear on this point: Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and sought to help Donald Trump win the White House.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-has-won-mueller-report-details-the-ways-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-election-11555666201
Let's take a ride in the Wayback Machine to this August 1, 2018 USA Today article:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/01/republicans-block-money-election-security/884438002/
Keep in mind - this move last fall by the GOP to thwart a public investment in to securing our national electoral system, came AFTER all 16 U.S. Intelligence and national security agencies had issued a rare, joint public statement affirming the truth that Russian operatives interfered in the 2016 election, with the express intent of benefiting Donald Trump's prospects for taking the White House.
And now, with the release of the Mueller report, we have evidence-based confirmation that the Russians hacked in to voting databases of at least two of the battleground states of Florida and Illinois, and possibly a third, Wisconsin. This had been reported on previously, but Mueller's investigation has now confirmed that the hacking did indeed occur [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/u-s-intel-russia-compromised-seven-states-prior-2016-election-n850296].
But don't look to Trump and the GOP to take any meaningful or effective measures to prevent Putin and his Vodka swilling cyber monkeys from ratfucking the upcoming 2020 election. That would most certainly not be in their best interest. And Vladimir Putin is quite cognizant of the fact that the door to the American electoral security hen-house has purposefully been left wide open, and that he has been granted free reign by Trump and the Republican party, to invade and plunder as he pleases. And besides that - why would Putin quit his assault on our democracy, especially considering the level of fabulous success that he achieved in 2016?
No - the last thing conservative Republicans want is clean and fair elections. They know that they are on the downside of shifting demographics in this country and that their party, now officially the property of Trumpian MAGA, is on a steady trajectory toward extinction, and/or self-defeat through their own corruption and treachery. And it is why, at every turn, that the GOP makes calculated efforts to ensure that our electoral system is anything but clean, fair and uncompromised.
When it comes to U.S. elections, clean, fair, and uncompromised, quite simply observed, are not the kind of attributes that benefit the modern-day conservative movement, primarily because that movement is built on a foundation of lies and corruption and charlatanism, and Drumpf and his enablers all know that it is just a matter of time before their con game is entirely exposed, and their grip on political power is permanently wrenched from their crooked and deceiving hands.
Very simply put - Donald Trump needs to be impeached, even though we know that the GOP Senate will protect him. Regardless, it is imperative that Drumpf gets that big, bold asterisk of impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives, eternally associated with his perfidious presidency in the history books. His actions in office have more than justified attaching that stain to his despicable name.
And lest The Gadfly neglect to note - the modern-day conservative movement is a deadly virus in need of a powerful antibiotic that will destroy it. That antibiotic is clean, fair, and uncompromised elections, and We The People can ensure that our democracy endures by holding these American (and Russian) democracy-hating bastards, and election ratfuckers to righteous account for their betrayals of the principles and ideals that make The United States of America a great nation.
----TFG
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