Fact: The DNC emails were hacked by some one.
Fact: The emails were made public by WikiLeaks.
Fact: The emails leaked presented Hillary and the DNC as deceitful and dishonest.
Fact: The information in the emails was true.
Allegation, probably untrue: Obama is accusing Russia for the hacking.
In the spirit of presenting FACTS, I have included an excerpt from a recent article quoting President Putin.
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has a message for the White House and Democratic leaders who accuse him of stealing their candidate’s victory: Don’t be sore losers.
That was how Putin answered a question Friday at his nationally
televised annual news conference about whether Russia interfered in the U.S.
presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.
The Democrats “are losing on all fronts and looking
elsewhere for things to blame,” he told the nearly 1,400 journalists packed
into a Moscow convention hall for the nearly four-hour event. “In my view,
this, how shall I say it, degrades their own dignity. You have to know how to
lose with dignity.”
The Kremlin leader — who also sent an upbeat letter to
Trump last week that the president-elect revealed Friday — pointed out that
Republicans had won the House and Senate, as well.
“Did we do that, too?” he asked with a slight grin.
To chide the Democratic leadership, Putin invoked the
U.S. president he occasionally mentions as someone he admires. He appears to
seek favorable comparison to Franklin D. Roosevelt, America’s longest-serving
head of state, because of his own efforts to help Russia prosper after the
ruinous depression that followed the Soviet Union’s demise.
“Outstanding figures in American history from the ranks
of the Democratic Party would likely be turning in their graves. Roosevelt
certainly would be,” Putin told the journalists.
“Trump understood the mood of the people and kept going
until the end, when nobody believed in him,” Putin said, adding with another
wry smile, “except for you and me.”
Trump’s transition team said Friday that Putin had sent a
letter Dec. 15 wishing the president-elect a merry Christmas and conveying a
desire “to take real steps to restore the framework of bilateral cooperation in
different areas as well as bring our level of collaboration on the
international scene to a qualitatively new level.”
“A very nice letter from Vladimir Putin; his thoughts are
so correct,” Trump’s transition team quoted the president-elect as saying. “I
hope both sides are able to live up to these thoughts, and we do not have to
travel an alternate path.”
The Russian leader has repeatedly denied involvement in the U.S. election despite
the accusations from the White House, and the Kremlin has questioned the
evidence for the claims. On Friday, Putin borrowed some of Trump’s dismissive
rhetoric, remarking, “Maybe it was someone lying on the couch who did it.”
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