TJ Walker discusses the CIA's assessment that Russia hacked and selectively released material to interfere in the 2016 election. He argues this is a threat to democracy and calls on Republicans to publicly condemn and investigate the interference.
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It's now official the CIA has come up with its assessment and it is concluded that Russia did in fact aid and abet the Trump campaign. They hacked both the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Republican Party and others on.
Both sides, but they only released information.
Damaging to the Clinton campaign to help the Trump campaign. Now, why is this so significant? There's always dirty tricks in politics, so.
What'S the big deal? The deal is this is a foreign power meddling with US Elections that is.
A core threat to democracy in and of itself. From a public relations standpoint, this is wildly troublesome for the incoming Trump administration.
Because it.
Cast in a very negative light the legitimacy of the administration. One can only imagine that if some foreign power, a leftist leaning government, did the same thing, selectively releasing documents damaging to the Trump campaign, and that she ended up winning a narrow Electoral College.
Victory, but losing the popular vote by almost 3 million.
You can just imagine the marches in the street demanding that the election be overturned or redone. You can imagine the vehemence in the threats to the electors to change their.
Vote if this had been the other way.
Now, it's too soon to tell what's going to happen here, but I think the Trump administration, incoming administration, has to take an aggressive stance here and say.
That this is appalling, this does deserve.
To be investigated, that in fact, this is unacceptable. Donald Trump famously, during the campaign, asked the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton and release her emails. You could say he was just being.
Facetious, over the top, trolling the Democrats.
But it does look very, very odd. Now. This administration is coming in to power in very odd circumstances, having lost the.
Popular election by millions and millions of votes, the Electoral College victory much less than most winners.
So to have something like this further scratching away at its legitimacy is a.
Serious, serious public relations problem that could.
Soon morph into a massive political problem.
That's why I believe Trump and his.
Administration and the Republicans have to essentially stop being cute here and start acting like they are just as upset about this as many Democrats. I'm TJ Walker. Thanks for joining me. By the way, if you're new to this channel, either here on Facebook or on YouTube, please take a moment to like the channel. If you're on Facebook, subscribe. If you're on YouTube, this is the place where we try to help people communicate more effectively when it comes to giving speeches, speaking to the media, and.
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