Ross: We were warned about interference in the 2016 election
Jan 28, 2019, 5:40 AM
In this Oct. 9, 2016 file photo, Hillary Clinton speaks as Donald Trump listens. (Rick T. Wilking/Pool via AP)
(Rick T. Wilking/Pool via AP)
With every new indictment in the Mueller investigation, I ask myself, what’s the problem we’re trying to solve here? Why was it important to arrest Trump fanboy Roger Stone for lying about his contacts with Wikileaks, the source of those hacked emails that just happened to appear a month before the 2016 election?
Well, it must be to make sure that next time voters have fair warning when a foreign power is trying to manipulate them! Right?
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So I went back into the 2016 election archives and dropped a needle in the middle of the Oct. 9 debate.
Hillary said, “Our intelligence community just came out and said in the last few days that … Putin and the Russian government, are directing the attacks, the hacking on American accounts to influence our election.”
And she said all this standing not 10 feet from Donald Trump.
Hillary said, “We have never, in the history of our country, been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of an election. And believe me, they’re not doing it to get me elected.”
So by all means, let’s go ahead and prosecute anyone who lied to cover up the foreign interference in 2016, but let’s not pretend that voters didn’t get fair warning.
It was right there, for anyone who chose to listen.
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