"Our intelligence is wrong about hacking so it'll be wrong about anything else they find."

[skip fox]

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Might this not be Trump's plan? Cast aspersions on the intelligence community so that if they find out that Trump's team (via Manafort?) colluded with the Russians (advising where to hack, how to release, prepping Wikileaks and/or negotiating the information exchange), he can say, "See? I've said they were wrong from the start!"


Otherwise why is he prolonging losing narrative.

[skip fox]

1. I want to keep this up and in the public's eye as much as possible.

Many others are questioning this as well, including Slate.

If anything can mitigate this train wreck, it's to find collusion between Trump and the Russian hackers. If he did so, it's treason, and not even the F.B.I. can look aside.

[Greybnk48]

3. K&R

We ignore this at our peril.

[Nancy Waterman]

2. That is what he did with the media

He constantly branded them as liars so none of what they reported was taken seriously by his groupies.
He inoculated himself from any negative stories. It makes sense he is doing the same again. He probably did it in countless court cases too.

[canetoad]

4. Coincidentally

I've just finished reading an article about DFT and Putin that said this about the hacking:

"We're approaching the point where the evidence is so rich that there are only two reasons not to accept it – one, because you don't understand the technical details because you don't have the skills, or because you don't want to understand it for political reasons," Thomas Rid, a professor at King's College London, told America's PBS before Christmas.

Rest of article here: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/why-the-trumpputin-bromance-is-here-to-stay-20170103-gtl9h5.html