Originally Posted by
time4fun
Thank you for sharing that. I'm genuinely trying to understand the opposite side of the political spectrum and your relationship with Trump. As you can probably guess, there aren't a lot of folks on the hard right out in the Bay Area.
Now I don't want to re-litigate what Clinton did, or didn't, do. But one thing I will point out is that a lot of the horrible things said about Clinton in 2016 came from the Clinton Cash book. The same book that was funded by the Mercers and written by the co-founder of the Government Accountability Institute (the other co-founder was Steve Bannon)- which is also funded by the Mercers.
And, of course, Bannon was a founding member of Cambridge Analytica- also founded and funded by the Mercers. The same Cambridge Analytica that specialized in using (mis)information warfare in politics. And we all remember the tapes of the head of Cambridge Analytica talking about leveraging lies and entrapment as their specialties. The same Cambridge Analytica that was feeding demographic information about American voters to a Russian Professor who was receiving Russian government grants to study the use of social media as a political tool.
And that book just happened to have come out in an election year, focusing on the opponent of the Mercer-backed Donald Trump.
Maybe Clinton is a saint, and maybe she's the devil (and probably somewhere in between), but the people who were providing the worst stories about her weren't exactly saints themselves, and they specialized in misinformation campaigns to sway political outcomes.
Food for thought.