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Saturday, January 14, 2017

For Democrats, The Truth Does Not Set You Free

I heard congressman Lewis almost whisper yesterday when he told Chuck Todd that President Elect Trump is not going to be a "legitimate" president.  According to Lewis, it is because of what the Russians did to destroy Hillary Clinton's candidacy.  Otherwise, Lewis thinks, Hillary would have won.

But what exactly did the Russians do?  The first answer is neither Lewis nor anyone else knows the exact answer to that question.  The intelligence agencies say that the Russians hacked the DNC and the Clinton campaign.  Those, of course, are the same intelligence agencies that said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  They are also the same intelligence agencies that told president Obama that ISIS was not a major threat.  In other words, they are the people who have gotten some really major things wrong in recent years.  But let's assume that the Russians did indeed hack the DNC and the Clinton campaign.  What was the result of that hack?  The answer is that the truth about the DNC and Hillary Clinton was revealed.

It is important to remember that no one, not even the most strident supporter of Hillary Clinton, has ever claimed that the emails released to the public by Wikileaks were fakes.  They were all actual emails that came off the computers of the DNC and the Clinton campaign.  They were the unvarnished truth.

Think about it.  Supporters of Bernie Sanders kept saying that the DNC was slanting the field during the primaries to make Hillary the nominee and to keep Bernie from winning.  Hillary Clinton, her campaign and the then head of the DNC Debbie Wasserman Schultz denied that there was any truth to that charge.  Then Wikileaks released the emails from the DNC which proved clearly that the DNC and Wasserman Schultz herself had conspired with the Clinton campaign to help Hillary and hurt Bernie Sanders.  In other words, the TRUTH came out.  The liars at the DNC and the Clinton campaign were revealed.

During the campaign, Hillary refused to release her speeches to the big banks on Wall Street.  Then Wikileaks released copies that were attached to emails in the account of Hillary's campaign manager John Podesta.  In these speeches, Hillary explained how she was forced to lie to the average voter in public while keeping her true opinion and future course of action private.  In other words, the truth was revealed again.

During the campaign, all manner of lies were told by Hillary and her campaign.  Then Wikileaks released the Podesta emails which showed the truth and revealed the lies that had been told.  The American people got to see the Clinton lies.

This is what the Russians did (if indeed it was them.)  They let the American people see and hear the truth.  The Russians prevented Hillary Clinton and her people from getting away with telling lies to the American people.

With all due respect, congressman Lewis, by letting us hear the truth, the Russians did not delegitimize President Elect Trump.  Nope, what the Russians did was to show Hillary and the Democrats for the phonies and liars that they actually are.  Hillary and the Democrats delegitimized themselves.  The Russians just shone a light on that truth.

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