Re: Hillary Clinton's team met with Russian ambassador, says Kremlin spokesman, as he
This whole idea that because the Trump campaign was talking to the Russians=Russian hackers/Russia influencing the election is ridiculous.
Not to mention, there's a lot of different accusations and steps that gets thrown around, and far to often people like to try and act like one directly leads into the other.
There's the idea of whether the Trump campaign had any contact with Russia.
Then there's the idea of whether or not Russian actors attempted to influence the election.
Then there's the question that IF there were russian attempts, whether or not said Russian actors are state sponsored ones.
Additional to that IF, there's a question whether or not those attempts were done specifically in an effort to aid Trump, specifically in an effort to harm Clinton, or were done for some other reason such as simply creating dysfunction and chaos within the American system.
Then there's the question that IF Russia did interfere in order to aid Trump, why? Due to ties to Trump, due to a belief that Trump would be more beneficial to their interests, or because they figured Hillary would win (like pretty much EVERYONE did) and they wanted to make sure her opposition was robust.
And finally, was the Trump campaign involved with such a thing? And if so, to what degree; directing it, requesting it, simply capitalizing off it?
WAYYY to often, it seems like some people are feeling like if they get a "yes" to one of those questions, then it means a "yes" to all the other questions in the direction they want. So if someone in the Trump campaign was talking to Russia, that somehow is "evidence" (Haymarket's post is a great example of this thinking) that somehow it must imply that all the things that occurred was done by state sponsored Russian actors in conjunction with Trump to put him into power because he's directly tied with them....or something.
