The idea wasn't to inflict military damage, it was to make political advantage, to overshadow the #TrumpRussia story and slow Trump's cratering polls before he broke below 30%.

Link to tweet

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)

3. k and r..nt

Reply to L. Coyote (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 7, 2017, 10:39 PM

Apr 2017

Cha

(320,590 posts)

4. donald trump.. the biggest fucking tool in the Universe

Reply to L. Coyote (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 7, 2017, 10:47 PM

Apr 2017

kentuck

(115,627 posts)

10. It makes sense...

Reply to L. Coyote (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 8, 2017, 01:32 AM

Apr 2017

to me.

Cha

(320,590 posts)

2. K&R!

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Fri Apr 7, 2017, 10:36 PM

Apr 2017

shraby

(21,946 posts)

5. I called that last night as it was happening.

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Fri Apr 7, 2017, 10:49 PM

Apr 2017

triron

(22,240 posts)

6. And our media fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.

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Fri Apr 7, 2017, 11:05 PM

Apr 2017

Idoru

(167 posts)

7. They always do

Reply to triron (Reply #6)

Fri Apr 7, 2017, 11:17 PM

Apr 2017

They all act like anything off some "normalcy script" is a "conspiracy theory", until decades later when those "theories" are accepted fact.

They are cowards. Especially given the times we are living in, where it has been established, for the first time in our history, that our elections were compromised by a hostile foreign state. The coy act doesn't wash.

Pachamama

(17,565 posts)

8. My jaw dropped....I was so happy to hear someone saying what we all are thinking and know is true

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Sat Apr 8, 2017, 12:23 AM

Apr 2017

Rhiannon12866

(258,842 posts)

9. Same for me!

Reply to Pachamama (Reply #8)

Sat Apr 8, 2017, 12:52 AM

Apr 2017

GMTA!

kentuck

(115,627 posts)

11. Yep!

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #9)

Sat Apr 8, 2017, 01:34 AM

Apr 2017

burrowowl

(18,494 posts)

12. Most probably!

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Sat Apr 8, 2017, 01:37 AM

Apr 2017

To distract from cheato collaboration.

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