If Trump Didn't Get The Repug Nomination And Another Repug Ran Against Hillary For Prez.....

[global1]

would the Russians have interfered?

Was the Russian interference with the 2016 Election solely because of Trump? Would it have happened no matter who the Repug nominee was? Did the Russians interfere just because they didn't want Hillary as President?

[AlexSFCA]

1. whoever they could convince to lift sanctions

w/o a doubt they’d be interference, russians have been interfering for years especially after 2012, magnitsky act. But their interference is mostly to affect voters minds through clever propaganda, not hacking votes. US goal was to break Soviet Union while today’s russia goal is to break USA.

[thegoose]

2. Putin haaaates Hillary

From when she criticized him as secretary of state, so I think there was no way out, despite the Repub nominee. It's just a happy coincidence (for Pootie) that the blithering orange criminal was the nominee...

[StevieM]

3. The better question is whether a different Democrat would also have been investigated by the FBI

for some reason.

And I have absolutely no doubt that the answer is yes.

This was James Comey's election from start to finish.

[egduj]

4. Yes.

The Russians have interfered in every election since 1788.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Depends, were any of the other potential GOP candidates...

conduits for laundering of sketchy Russian mob and oligarch money through questionable real estate deals?