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>Also Trump's lot meeting with the Russians before hand and the 100s of Russian troll accounts with names like American Patriot.

No one is alleging collusion between Russia and Trump, so you are alluding to baseless conspiracy theories here.

>Obviously the Russians were trying to help Trump and may have swung things a little given that the vote was so close.

Suggesting that American elections are insecure and have been tampered with is perpetuating The Big Lie conspiracy theory.



Not really - there's a load of info on what went on on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

The Russians trying to help their prefered candidate wasn't so different to any number of other people and organisations trying to do similarnexcept they broke some laws.




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