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Did the Trump/Russia thing actually matter? The whole thing just seemed like a clickbait scam for liberals who - let's be honest - were always going to vote against Trump.

It sounds like swing voters didn't really care about Trump's scandals - they perhaps were just frustrated with his conduct and handling of the pandemic and ensuing social unrest.

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Yes it matters. It was an attack on our democracy and national security by an aggressive foreign adversary.

~Lmao, the indictment is specifically that Russiagate was fabricated and there was a huge conspiracy lying about it.~

This was misleading due to me misunderstanding and my own biases.

This doesn't appear to be true - as another commenter pointed out: "the only thing here is speculation on the motivation of the delivery of the information, not on the veracity of the information"

The indictment is about whether the lawyer who sent a computer scientist's DNS analysis lied to the FBI about whether he was bringing the analysis on behalf of anyone. He said No, but was working for the Clinton campaign at the time. The indictment doesn't challenge the contents of the analysis and the lawyer claims this was unrelated to his work on/for the campaign. They better have some hard evidence that the Clinton campaign directed him to go to the FBI or the Trump special prosecutor will lose this case badly.

As least try and understand the details of what is going on.

Oh jolly. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Of course it's completely unrelated. All lawyers are interested in DNS sniffing, haven't you heard? It's going to be more popular with that crowd than golf soon! /s

He has a career as a cybersecurity lawyer. This isn't some random ambulance chaser.

>It sounds like swing voters didn't really care about Trump's scandals

Really? My impression was that they were the only ones who cared (in the sense that they could make a decision one way or the other, as opposed to being fated to a decision by one's sociopolitical loyalties/hatreds).

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