| This seems like a remnant opinion resultant from old propaganda campaigns promoted by politicians Russia was supporting with its interference in US politics. These campaigns were multifaceted and included calling proven basic facts into question, going so far as to suggest Russia wasn't interfering at all. Convincing people to disbelieve this basic fact precluded them from any possible consideration of whether Russia was supporting specific candidates, how Russia might benefit from such a candidate taking power, and why Russia might consider interference to be worth the effort, money, and risk. This disbelief would also preclude any consideration about why the politician might: - support such Russian meddling by pretending it did not exist - make unsupported claims implicating their political opponents which completely ignored known facts - play dumb whenever the subject came up It was a playbook, followed to incredible success in conjunction with other propaganda efforts. This all served to enable the politician to completely avoid addressing core questions about why Russia would support the candidate to the point of interfering with US elections to begin with. |