Trump Slams Allies in favor of Putin (again)...

[Dill]

(07-16-2018, 04:16 PM)bfine32 Wrote: So you do think this is the first time one Nation has tried to influence another's? 

FWIW, I said that when it came out about the DNC unfairly biasing Hills, it's something we didn't need to know; but it's out there (ot sure if that's something the Russians uncovered or not) and I'll focus on the action rather than the source.

I think Hollo's point was that this was the first time "a foreign power ever hacked one party and published the retrieved documents before an election." Along with a "propaganda campaign from a foreign power generating 2.400 fake ads, 80.000 fake posts and reaching supposedly 136 million Americans." 

The US has tried to "influence" Russian elections by praising pro-democracy parties and publicly condemning Putin, as "weak" Hillary did.  So I guess you could say "both sides do it" --once you frame every action at a sufficient level of generality, false equivalence is ready to hand.

In any case, the question of whether this was the "first time" a foreign power hacked a party's email account to throw an election, has no relevance to the questions surrounding Trump's election and current actions.  Even it this were the second or third time, Trump's inability to grasp current imperatives for national security and manage it ought to be our concern--I include in this his inability to work with our NATO allies, or even to see why that alliance is important and more than a matter of them "paying their fair share."