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No. That the Russians would've much rather seen a Clinton presidency because of the previous arrangements with the Clintons (Uranium One, etc)

It was in the interest of Russia to have her in the Whitehouse rather than Trump. So spying on his campaign with a long time asset (Manafort) to pass info back to the Clintons to use to defeat Trump makes sense.

Complicating this whole mess was the hacked email scandal though, which may or may not have been done by the Russians, but pushed Clinton into a face-saving escalation of hostilities against them.

I shudder to think that we'd literally fight a war - a NUCLEAR WAR - with Russia over something so trivial as hacked emails, but with the way she was ratcheting up the rhetoric, it was conceivable. Thank God that crazy harpy didn't get elected. [/quote]

The whole reason the Russians got involved was out of retribution to Hillary's stance on Ukraine and the follow on sanctions related to Crimea that came with Kerry.

The uranium story has been debunked a number of times: http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/

So the contortions you are trying to sift through don't add up.[/quote]

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