Thanks for posting. He makes a lot of sense.
It hasn't been all that big of a secret that many countries have been meddling in foreign elections since at least WWII and probably well before that.
I'm presuming that Rand Paul is speaking with direct knowledge behind his statements and not one surprises me.
It is in the best interest of powerful countries to have foreign leaders that are amenable to mutually beneficial agreements and therefore they try to accomplish the elevation of agreeable individuals to those leadership positions.
Churchill did it to us and we've done it to plenty others.
The issue to me is the notion that one or both of our incompetent teams attempts to make it into a political scandal.
Trump's comments today are pretty stupid, IMHO. What is even more nauseating is that both sides are happy to gloss over manipulation that serves their immediate purposes. If the tables were turned, it would probably not look much different.
On the other hand, if Hillary were POTUS right now there likely would not have been a summit; but if there were, there's little chance she would have pulled something like today's comments.
Although Putin might have tried to precipitate WWIII in a live press conference since he probably hates her guts more than I do.
