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Did the Russians Really Want Trump to Win? theepochtimes.com/did-the-russia… via @epochtimes

@EpochTimes To begin with, the Russians were reading the same polls we were that gave the likelihood of a Trump victory as somewhere between slim and none. Why waste their efforts in favor of Donald, even assuming they wanted to?

@EpochTimes The salacious details in the dossier could only have come from two sources–former British spy Christopher Steele made them up himself or Russian contacts who fed him the dubious information.

@EpochTimes If it’s the latter, or even partially the latter, it makes the Mueller Report’s (or is it the Andrew Weismann Report?) contention that the Russians favored Trump completely absurd. How could you possibly be favoring a candidate while disseminating that kind of gossip?

@EpochTimes Moreover, that the dossier was paid for by the Clinton campaign and had Russian fingerprints all over it points to an opposite conclusion. The Russians favored Hillary. Plenty of reasons exist to believe this possibility.

@EpochTimes If there is any truth to the Uranium One story (the Clintons acquiescing to and profiting from the sale of twenty % of US uranium mining capacity to Putin), it should be obvious the Russians had considerably more potential blackmail capability with Mrs. Clinton than with Trump.

@EpochTimes Although this is yet another reason to regard the Mueller Report as little more than Democratic Party propaganda, in the end, I don’t believe the Russians actually favored Hillary. That’s not their style.

@EpochTimes They were doing what they have been doing since the days of the tsars’ secret service–the Okhrana–sowing discord and turning us against each other. They seem to have done a brilliant job in this case.

@EpochTimes But don’t believe me. Believe former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who said as much when announcing in February 2018 the indictment of the thirteen Russian hackers at the St. Petersburg troll farm.

@EpochTimes He went further to demonstrate the hacker’s “even-handed’ approach as equal-opportunity disrupters: “After the election, the defendants allegedly staged rallies to support the president-elect, while simultaneously staging rallies to protest his election.

@EpochTimes For example, the defendants organized one rally to support the president-elect and another rally to oppose him, both in New York, on the same day.”

@EpochTimes Nevertheless, the Democrats wanted to use all this to unseat a president. Trump himself has called it treason. He may well be right. We shall soon see.

@EpochTimes Meanwhile, it’s worth reading Disinformation by Ion Pacepa, Romanian dictator Ceausescu’s intelligence chief and the highest-ranking officer from the former Soviet bloc to have defected.

@EpochTimes Pacepa gives the best explanation I have seen of how Soviet and Russian methodology functions. And it costs a helluva lot less than the pathetic Russia probe.