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This story was broke by The Daily Beast. So the person who HACKED THE DNC was dumb enough to forget to turn on his VPN and then a news outlet where Chelsea Clinton is a board member caught him? It's a totally rediculous story and likley fabricated. Unless the DNC's cybersecurity was run by literal children, the kind of sophistication needed to pull off that hack would not be by the caliber of person who would allow themselves to be traced back in the basic way this story claims. Not only that, but the original Guccifer 2.0. story was discredited many times. The documents that were released were deemed to be fake, multiple times, not just on fringe websites, but also by the MSM.

"VIPS instead surmises that, after WikiLeaks' Julian Assange announced on June 12, 2016 his intention to publish Hillary Clinton-related emails, the DNC rushed to fabricate evidence that it had been hacked by Russia to defuse any potential WikiLeaks disclosures. To this end, the theory goes, the DNC used the Guccifer 2.0 online persona to release mostly harmless DNC data." https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-10/why-some-...

Maybey this is the "insurance policy" discussed in text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Andrew McCabe. The release of the new story has sleery timing with McCabe's firing last week.

The whole internet was talking about how Guccifer 2.0 was fake and now today they have decided it was real. Lol!

This is like ranting that Google couldn't have developed Chrome because their PR person doesn't know how to code.

Note that the story was broke by a news outlet linked to Chelsea Clinton: https://medium.com/@jashobell/the-daily-beast-is-owned-by-ia...

What exactly does her being on the board have to do with ANY of this?

The "Russiagate narriative" is a distraction from the reality that the DNC leadership rigged the 2016 primary in favor of Chelsea Clinton's mother, and also from the very real possibility that the emails were leaked from the inside. Russiaphobia also helps in numerous ways the foriegn policy that Chelsea Clinton's mother campaigned on, which may very well have led the US into a war with Russia. Hillary wanted to put a no-fly zone over Russia's sole operational naval base in Tarus, Syria. Can you imagine how the US military would respond of the Russians tried to do the same? Deliberate conflict in the region was her plan ever since she, by her own admission, proudly destabilized the Lybian regime so that weapons could be pumped through it into Syria. "Russiagate" helps her and those who would have profited from this scheme.

Nobody aside from Trump cares about Hillary any more. She lost. Nobody would act in a conspiracy to cover the "rigging" of the DNC primary when they could be supoened by the republican Mueller.

> Hillary wanted to put a no-fly zone over Russia's sole operational naval base in Tarus, Syria.

What happened to rest of Russian operational naval bases? What did they do to them, close them out?

You are a Trumpkin delibrately posting nonsense. Misdirection and Lies.

You turned a joke about 'secret society' into a conspiracy. Trump supporters made up lies about Pizzagate and Seth Rich murder to spread more bullshit.

It is a credible report. Attacking random board members doesn't do shit.

If Mueller indicts someone you right wing hacks will attack Mueller and claim he is partisan democrat.

When Comey letter harmed Clinton you claimed Comey was a non-partisan and good but when he started harming Trump you started claiming he was a Democrat.

Comey, McCabe and Mueller all of them are Republicans and were appointed by republicans.

>Unless the DNC's cybersecurity was run by literal children, the kind of sophistication needed to pull off that hack would not be by the caliber of person who would allow themselves to be traced back in the basic way this story claims.

What the fuck does this mean? Hacking is still a crime.

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