Sanders promoted false story on reporting Russian trolls

[JCanete]

121. Point was that could easily have been a legitimate mistake, since it sounds

like there was a misunderstanding about a pac supposedly associated with Clinton. That doesn't mean that's what this was and Sanders isn't using that detail to deflect on what he did or did not do, but it certainly is not enough information to convict him in the court of public opinion of doing so. As to what Sanders and his campaign knew, for the most part he suggests these are things he became aware of post primary, so he was not benefitting from them in any direct way at that point, not that I'm sure he was ever benefitting in a direct way. At the time of campaigning for Clinton it wouldn't have even been appropriate to publically focus on these attacks if that were not how the Clinton campaign itself was going about the issue.

The Clinton campaign and the Obama administration both made calculated decisions about how publically to make this issue, which makes sense to me. It would have sounded like making excuses for an eventual loss when all signs pointed to Clinton winning the presidency.