Clapper tells Maddow the president is illegitimate: Trump would not be president if not for Russia
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James Clapper tells Rachel Maddow the president is illegitimate: ‘Trump would not be president if not for’ Russia
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/james-clapper-tells-rachel-maddow-president-illegitimate-trump-not-president-not-russia/
“Now that he is out of government service and a private citizen, James Clapper is ready to say what he really thinks on that front and what he saw happen,” she said.
While quoting his book directly, Maddow broke down the Russian investigation into the presidential election.
Clapper says he has “no doubt” that Russia swung the elections.
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“He served as director of national intelligence for 6 1/2 years, including for the duration of the Russian attack on the 2016 election. He says that Donald Trump would not be president if not for that attack,” Maddow said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=XRXWVJsDdAQ
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clapper
"Clapper became Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in November 1991 under George H. W. Bush."
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They initially dropped 4 points, but Hillary inched back up 2 points, before running out of time. And that doesn't even count all the Dem voters who decided to just stay home because of the repeated FBI Hillary bashing. This drop off was of course most devastating in the swing states where it was already very close.
I live in the rural deep south and it's very...rural deep south down here. 
Same for Arkansas, where our daughter now raises her family. We've both been told by people that they'd never met a liberal.
Russia especially targeted registered Democrats and independents who normally vote Democrat.
Using social media, they identified and fed personal weaknesses, providing lies to feed things like ignorance, lack of conviction and resentment, and they alarmed and "disillusioned" a small but critical percentage into mostly not voting. We're not angels, and with encouragement constantly fed directly into personal furnaces, some voted third party or Trump our of spite and resentment. Likely most believed they could safely do so because for a year prior the news had been discussing how far ahead we were and how big our wins would be. But they still ultimately made themselves fatally useful idiots.
We'll get Russia eventually. But for now we have to stop this problem by fixing ourselves, and that starts with accepting blame, not making excuses for it. That's an exploitable, fatal weakness.
Laura. Beyond doubt this era is being intensively studied, and I'm looking forward to reading some of the best regarded histories, written after rather than from in the middle.
Came back for something that just occurred to me: This is the information age. Data gathering and analysis aren't only done by inimical forces bent on defeating electorates. The study of humans is already becoming far, far, far more fact based than was ever even imagined possible before.