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Originally Posted by vienna

Trump has had an epiphany about Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election and has taken swift action in dealing with the party responsible for the interference -- Obama:

Never mind that Obama was bending over backwards to try to not interfere, rightly or wrongly, in the election himself, and that Obama's efforts, or lack thereof, allowed Trump to get the Electoral win:

Somehow, Trump just can't bring himself to actually blame the real person responsible, Vladimir Putin. Maybe that's because Trump owes him so much. Well, at least, Putin seems to be making out okay:

Apparently there is plenty of blame to go around.

Also from The Atlantic...

https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...erence/531486/

As the multi-pronged attack on the election unfolded, the Obama administration’s response was slow and deliberative to the point of paralysis. There was a lag between when the Russians did something, and when it was reported to the administration.

And, of course, there’s us in the media, who helped the Russians weaponize the hacked emails, while simultaneously being unable to fully make sense of the scale of what the Russians were doing, suspicious as we were of the Clinton camp leaking us stories about Putin going after Hillary.

All that because of a 25-page intelligence report. It’s not hard to imagine what things would have looked like had it been released not in January, but in September. It would have been far more effective than Obama’s telling Putin on the sidelines of another G-20 summit that month to “cut it out.” Putin knows when you mean it, and when you don’t.