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Surprising they would nominate Assange after he helped elect a hard right populist by selectively timing leaks.

If telling the truth changes people’s preferences, that doesn’t seem like the messenger’s fault. Whoever actually did/said the thing that people didn’t like is at fault.

There wasn't much truth in those e-mails that meant much. There were a lot of comments that could be interpreted out of context as a basis for extremely wild... I hesitate to even call them conspiracy theories as they're crazier than that. All that was launched literally a week or two from the election.

The people who found pizzagate codewords in the emails were never going to vote for her anyway, and you can’t possibly hold whoever released them at fault for some crazies coming up with their own fairy tales.

There were a few details that legitimately pissed people off though. I recall her being fed debate questions, as well as efforts to undermine Sanders. Those are Hillary’s fault for doing them, not WL or Putins fault for showing people.

There are MINIMUM a dozen comparable scandals revealed in those emails.

This community's depth of political reading is super disappointing.

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