Also, just fyi

[Mark Kohut]

The US President is far worse than "a clown", I suggest, to a man who
believes in the right words used in the right way. (But it may be just a
Plist throwaway word although I remember when I was judged for the same
tossed-off verbiage).

I will send more on Russian interference in the US election of 2016, the
best work done on it, when I get it together but perhaps the case can
be made with simple logic.

Tens of millions, maybe a hundred million Americans were reached, many
'influenced' by actions that the Russian hackers did on Facebook, on
twitter in 2016.
One hacker trick was to go onto Facebook and schedule a Trump rally, place
and time, and others would 'join' and build and spread the enthusiasm and
PRESTO, there would be that rally, with the bot that started it now even
known about. Who can measure the effect in solidifying minds and bringing
out the vote?

(In my state, a group movement to drive a polluting multinational out of
the County
rose to thousands faster than I can read and at meetings and rallies,
almost no one knows who started the group. Natural leaders emerge and
continue)

Couple the above with the fact that Trump won with fewer than 100,000 votes
out of three states, three bot-targeted states. Donald Trump will be
president thanks to 80,000 people in three states---Wa Po.

We won't ever know what the Russians made happen at the US polls---and I
did not even go into anti-Hillary efforts by the Russians, which might have
kept the low turnout even lower.

To be so dismissive of the possible Russian effects on these United States,
leads me to distrust many "political" judgments about the US of those who
are.

As TRP said of the guy who argued in that NYC rag that he was J.D.
Salinger, "I didn't know of this newspaper but we need all the news we can
get. [Fed his jab at
the NYT's "All the news that's fit to print" [see *Anniversaries *as
counter-exemplum] ..."Keep Trying", he urged.