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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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OK, so you want to have your cake an eat it by implicitly accusing her while saying you just don't know.
Anyway, I think you're giving the American voters too much credit if you think they couldn't elect Trump without Russia's help. You're also vastly overstating the size and influence of the Internet Research Agency. If it truly was a Russian attempt to influence US politics, it was a deeply unserious one.
The 20216 election was incredibly close. It doesn't take much to influence the final result with narrow margins, especially when considering our archaic voting system which significantly over-represents less populated areas (i.e. changing a few hundred votes in one district can be more influential than another district with 10x as many voters if all of those voters are more politically consistent).
There were plenty of other factors that may have pushed Trump over the line, and most of them come down to Hillary being a bad candidate.
RE: "oh, so you want..."
I'm not really into argument-by-psychic-powers-or-psychoanalysis so when you open your reply by telling me you've read my mind, I'm done.