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Yes. This whole comments section is full of very specific posters.

There's a clear intent to derail and muffle.

Welcome to the world of Russian digital propaganda machine.

They even have puppet accounts arguing with each other, as was discovered by Russian media.

I get it to some extent. People really hate Trump, and I understand that and largely agree. I think it can be threatening to people when their identity is wrapped up in really heated partisanship to have an attack on their enemies questioned. It's only human to want to rally around something and have a hated outsider. And Trump truly is a bag of shit, he just wasn't as bad on this one narrow thing as newspapers and cable news might want you to think.

clearly, yes