{"id":10763,"date":"2018-07-19T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=10763"},"modified":"2018-07-19T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:20:43","slug":"did-the-russians-hack-the-dnc-to-help-bernie-sanders-and-the-socialist-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/did-the-russians-hack-the-dnc-to-help-bernie-sanders-and-the-socialist-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Russians Hack the DNC to Help Bernie Sanders and the Socialist Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bernie_in_phoenix_2015_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10764\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bernie_in_phoenix_2015_2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bernie_in_phoenix_2015_2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bernie_in_phoenix_2015_2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bernie_in_phoenix_2015_2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bernie_in_phoenix_2015_2.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>The hacks didn\u2019t help Trump, but helped Bernie.<\/strong> <\/em><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>FrontPage Mag<\/strong><br \/>\nby Daniel Greenfield<br \/>\n7\/17\/2018<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Russia conspiracy theory hinges on the single creaky claim that the Democratic National Committee hacks were a Russian plot to elect Trump. The theory and all its illegitimate stepchildren, including Robert Mueller and his infinitely expanding corps of prosecutors, lives or dies by the DNC hacks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Trying to elect Trump by releasing damaging insider information from the DNC never made any sense. The DNC was already a dysfunctional organization that was being run by the Clinton campaign. Undermining its leadership had little impact on the election, but a great deal on control of the DNC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There has never been any evidence that the DNC hacks swung the election. The vast majority of people never even heard of them. Only a handful of political insiders and watchers, already deeply and unpersuadably committed to one side or another, could name the contents of a single email.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When you want to understand the motive of a crime, follow the money. See who benefited from it, not casually, but deeply and significantly enough to justify the effort and risk of undertaking it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The hacks targeted Clinton allies and sought to undermine their influence within the Democrat Party.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/270761\/did-russians-hack-dnc-help-bernie-sanders-and-daniel-greenfield\">https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/270761\/did-russians-hack-dnc-help-bernie-sanders-and-daniel-greenfield<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hacks didn\u2019t help Trump, but helped Bernie. FrontPage Mag by Daniel Greenfield 7\/17\/2018 Excerpt: The Russia conspiracy theory hinges on the single creaky claim that the Democratic National Committee hacks were a Russian plot to elect Trump. The theory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/did-the-russians-hack-the-dnc-to-help-bernie-sanders-and-the-socialist-left\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10765,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions\/10765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}