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(52,209 posts)one aspect of your dot-connection i like is that i've always had a sense that these "random" rather oddly-specific statements he makes in his speeches and such are not products of a fertile imagination. he's drawing from real things he heard elsewhere, other conversations.
so, yeah, when he asked russia for the 30,000 emails, this wasn't some random pining to anyone who may or may not have hacked and obtained these emails. it was a rather specific statement, one that surely had some relevance to a conversation the public wasn't entirely aware of at the time.
similarly, that reference he made to a 400-pound hacked was oddly specific. i rather suspect, again, not the product of a vivid imagination. he's just not that creative. we have yet to uncover it, but somewhere in this story, there's a 400-pound hacker that benedict donald has seen and is aware of his hacking and has in fact happily availed himself of the fruits of such hacking.