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Russians have no Freedom of Speech to give anything of value to an American political campaign. There is no such thing for them and to do so is illegal.
Insults at me do not change the law. Federal law makes it a crime for any person to "solicit, accept or receive" a contribution or "anything of value" from a foreign person for a U.S. political campaign or "for the purpose of influencing any election for federal office."
And that is what the Trump campaign and the Russians did.
Th only way that argument makes any sense is if one subscribes to the insane fiction that nothing done in a campaign gets votes - especially a major initiative by a candidate who uses it over 160 times in the last month of a campaign and makes it the centerpiece of his speeches and attacks. And that is what Trump did with the wikileaks material. He invoked it over 160 times and rolled the dice betting on it to help him win. And it did.
For over 200 years, every single candidate who ever ran for a political office in America has done so on the basic assumption that campaigning for votes is the way you win elections. Every speech is designed to get votes. Every piece of literature is designed to get votes. Every bumper sticker is designed to get votes. The campaign slogan is designed to get votes. An attack on your opponent is designed to get votes. Kissing babies and shaking hands are designed to get votes.
Every activity in a campaign is designed to get votes to help you win the election.
So for you to take the absurd position that nobody can prove the use by Trump of the wikileaks material provided by the Russians changed any votes - is simply so irrational and so absurd and so senseless that it is the category of utter nonsense and purposeful delusional as it goes against the basic assumptions made by every candidate for every office who has every campaigned for elected office in the USA.
So no campaign lies, again, this really has to be an act, one that has consumed quite a bit of space and time. Words have to be verified just like you do when you buy something in your personal life. This entire argument of yours is something you would get from an innocent person who wants to trust everyone and has never been involved in the real world. You want to believe words whereas i do background checks and understand resumes. Actual actions trump rhetoric which is why you check resumes vs. just listening to words.
Proving that Trump participated in propaganda is easy, he campaigned just like Hillary did. Hillary's campaign was full of lies but you didn't want to believe them. The American electorate got it, when will you?