In recent weeks, Russiagaters have been scrambling like cockroaches to move the goal posts. Obama claimed that Russiagate just meant that the Russians interfered in the election without changing anything. Another Russiagater argues that we can’t disprove Russiagate unless we prove the negative that the Russians didn’t aid Trump.
Susan Miller, a retired CIA officer who helped lead the team that produced the report about Russia’s actions during the 2016 campaign, said that, “both me and my team readily acknowledged — to Trump and others in the USG we briefed — that we could not say if this attempt by the Russians actually worked unless someone polled every single Trump voter to see if this disinformation was what led them to vote for Trump.”
We’ve gone from innocent until proven guilty to guilty until proven innocent… and we can’t prove Trump is innocent unless we interrogate all Trump voters about whether the Russians convinced them to vote for Trump.
Mind you, the disinformation stuff Miller is pushing is nonsense. Russia’s Facebook spamming took place mostly after the election and was aimed at disaffected voters. Russia was not trying to influence the election, it was trying to gain influence by targeting those most skeptical about establishment candidates, to push its various other political agendas, especially involving Syria.
None of this is new.
Russia did not try to elect anyone. This entire narrative was used for a massive censorship campaign aimed at Americans, not Russians, in the name of stopping ‘disinformation’ which turned out to mean any kind of speech the Left did not like.
We’re well past this, but Russiagaters won’t let go of it.
