Russian meddling in U.S. elections had negligible effect, Bolton says

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS OCTOBER 22, 2018 / 2:36 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said on Monday that Russian meddling in U.S. elections had achieved negligible results, but insisted such behavior should not be tolerated.

A federal special counsel is leading a criminal investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and any possible cooperation with Donald Trump’s campaign.

Moscow has denied the allegations while Trump has said there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia.

Bolton played down the consequences of the alleged interference. “Today I told our Russian colleagues that their meddling in our election process had hardly had any real effect,” radio station Ekho Moskvy quoted him as saying on a visit to Moscow.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-elections/russian-meddling-in-u-s-elections-had-negligible-effect-bolton-says-idUSKCN1MW2K2

[pwb]

1. So it was wide spread then!

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[Grassy Knoll]

2. Key Point...Bolt-On Sez!!

[FreepFryer]

3. The sounds coming from Bolton's mustache had hardly any real effect at changing the truth. (n/t)

[bucolic_frolic]

4. "had hardly had any real effect"

But it did serve to make a fake effect, namely it altered the outcome

[PaulX2]

5. And 3 Planes Flying Into The WTC And Pentagon Also Had A Negligible Effect Too Right Johnny?

I read more than one expert said the Russian Conspiracy gave Trump the win. And I trust them more than Johnny Bolton.

[Botany]

6. IOW it rigged the elections for Trump and the Rs

Putin would not have spent years and years and 100s of millions of $s on
a project that had no real effect.

[C Moon]

7. :D !!!!

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

8. If he thinks the trump admin has been negligible....

these guys...I swear. "We did it, but, we didn't harm anybody."..sort of thing now. They won't do it again right? Deterence is why people get prosecuted. In addition to a person paying his own butchers bill.
The crime isn't if it was successful and how much they got as a haul. The crime was in doing it against our Country, and 340 million people. That's a lot of victims Bol-ton.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. The Brexit debacle was the canary-in-the-coal-mine warning to us!

[SunSeeker]

10. A "negligible effect," i.e. 72,000 swing state votes, is all it took for Trump to win.

[bluestarone]

11. Slowly day by day they

ADMIT IT!!!!!!!

[SKKY]

12. I genuinely hope the Muller investigation turns up something big on these clowns...

....just so i can watch them shit themselves. I know schadenfreude isn't a good look, but hubris is worse. Way, way worse.