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by syshum 2024 days ago
aside from your subjective view as to what constitutes a "prominent Democrat" Hilary Clinton her self stated multiple times that election was stolen from her.

Multiple News personalities dedicated billions of dollars in air time to the meh Russia Stole the election narrative for 3.5 years.

So miss me with your partisan moral grandstanding

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Clinton gave her concession speech the day after the election. She said in it "We owe Donald Trump an open mind and a chance to lead."[1] She approved of Obama starting the transition process as soon as possible.

She didn't initiate a single court-case that tried to reverse the results of the election, or throw out votes. She didn't call up individual state electors to talk them into changing their vote.

There's a big difference in saying "my opponent may have broken the law/a foreign government tried to interfere in our election" vs. actually claiming that 7 million votes were fraudulently added and suing to overturn the results of a democratic election. I'm sorry if you can't see that the matter of scale is a serious distinction.

1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-concession-spee...

Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections

ICA 2017-01D 6 January 2017

Key Judgments

Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election represent the most recent expression of Moscow’s longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, but these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations.

We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments. ...

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

How many people involved in Trump's campaign went to prison or were otherwise convicted of doing shady shit with russians and money?

Wasn't it close to 20?