Obama White House Knew of Russian Election Hacking, but Delayed Telling

[karynnj]

54. The bully pulpit is not what it used to be

In times of old, when the President asked for time, all three networks gave it to him as did at least some of the at most 5 independent channels. A charismatic President could speak, over the media, directly to the country, preempting nearly all broadcasting. Those days are gone. As we see now, the other side really does have not just its own opinions, but they have completely different facts.

Not to mention, Presidents used the bully pulpit to lobby for some general or specific action. President Obama at the convention and at many speeches made a case for voting for Clinton. I do not understand why you think Obama speaking to the nation on the hack would have even increased the people who knew about it. More importantly, why do you think that would make people vote for Hillary rather than Trump?

Both sides heard the accusations that the Russians hacked the DNC and Podesta. Listen to the debate. Trump during the election was arguing that we did not know who was hacking AND that if they did it was because Obama was not feared by Putin. The Obama administration DID put out that all 17 agencies agreed that the hacking was done by the Russians.

It has only been since the election that there were stories that Trump or people associated with him MAY have colluded in the hacking. Ifuggesting that Obama should have claimed that Trump was complicit when the facts did not yet back that up, I'm sorry, but that was not going to happen.