Darth Omar
Russian asset
You don't have to assume it, Mueller's report, as I keep saying pages 66-180, document it, there were Russians everywhere
Secondly, true, we don't know the average number of Russians involved in any campaign, but it is hard to believe, knowing Russia is a hostile nation to the US, most want them, or even want to be associated with them, let alone the shocking number Trump campaign leaders talked to, contacted, and looked to as a source of information
That is what Mueller basically concluded, they were too stupid to charge, that there wasn't enough evidence to show they knew what they were doing. And a "good ground game" doesn't mean using looking to Russia for aid
And you are way off with the better relations line, Russia wanted Trump to win, Mueller documented that, which would make most Americans wonder why a nation antagonistic toward the US wanted a particular candidate to win. Obama and Bush were President when they sought better relations, it didn't take them long to change their view
Now after Mueller proved Russia did interfere is Trump going to call Putin and ask him why he told Trump they did not interfere in our election. And is Trump going to admit he was mistaken when he believed Putin when he told him Russia didn't interfere?
And the "so what" comment only again raises the point I made up above, it was only prior to 2016 that conservatives as yourself would have described secretly working with Russians as "unAmerican"
But we don’t know if ‘there were Russians everywhere’ in Clinton’s campaign lol.
If there were, the ‘heads up’ would have been given and it wouldn’t have made the NYT. A big part of the problem here is that they handled the Trump campaign ‘differently’ in that regard—and they better have their ducks in a row for doing it, by the sound of it.
Regarding the Russian motives: as pointed out earlier, one could easily argue it was more a case of the Russians trying to defeat Hillary than help Trump. Hillary is an unrepentant neocon that could easily have us in Syria now if she were in the WH. Clearly, that’s against Russia’s interests. In fact, given that Trump hasn’t done much to help Putin [he’s hurt him more than helped him] that seems the obvious objective.
The last paragraph is amusing since the left has played both sides of the Russian fence. You guys mocked Romney for calling them [rightfully] a ‘geopolitical foe’.