Would you be ok with China helping us elect the next Democratic President?

[dashrendar4454]

It depends what China did? Did they actually hack into the voting systems and change votes? Or did they put some silly ads on Facebook? The latter is not “choosing” our president no matter what liberals claim

[kimchee]

Originally Posted by t206

What did Obama do about it? Same thing that Trump's administration has. Its a weak handed "ok, we will expel some diplomats (ie spies)? and call it a day.

People have been saying our voting tools are hack-able for decades now and there hasn't been any action.

Seriously? You don't know how to google, or do you refuse to listen to anything other than what Faux News tell you?

Here are the things Obama did:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.31bb5a664ef2
https://www.axios.com/obama-knew-put...ee9307890.html

• Obama instructed aides to evaluate how the election system could be most vulnerable and to get agencies to back up the CIA's discovery.
• CIA Director John Brennan called the head of Russia's security agency and warned him about interfering in the election.
• Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson attempted to secure the voting system, although some state officials refused.
  
• Obama approved a modest package combining measures that had been drawn up to punish Russia for other issues — expulsions of 35 diplomats and the closure of two Russian compounds — with economic sanctions so narrowly targeted that even those who helped design them describe their impact as largely symbolic.
  
• Obama also approved a previously undisclosed covert measure that authorized planting cyberweapons in Russia’s infrastructure, the digital equivalent of bombs that could be detonated if the United States found itself in an escalating exchange with Moscow. The project, which Obama approved in a covert-action finding, was still in its planning stages when Obama left office. It would be up to President Trump to decide whether to use the capability.
  

Keep in mind that "When the intelligence agency leaders approached Congress with their conclusions, Democrats wanted the information to go public, while Republicans felt that revealing the information would help the Russians' attempt to destroy confidence in the electoral process. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell even questioned the White House's conclusions based on the intelligence" and refused to issue a joint statement with Obama's administration...

So let me ask you back, what exactly has Trump willingly done about Russian meddling since he learned about it?

[t206]

Originally Posted by kimchee

Seriously? You don't know how to google, or do you refuse to listen to anything other than what Faux News tell you?

Here are the things Obama did:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.31bb5a664ef2
https://www.axios.com/obama-knew-put...ee9307890.html

• Obama instructed aides to evaluate how the election system could be most vulnerable and to get agencies to back up the CIA's discovery.
• CIA Director John Brennan called the head of Russia's security agency and warned him about interfering in the election.
• Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson attempted to secure the voting system, although some state officials refused.
  
• Obama approved a modest package combining measures that had been drawn up to punish Russia for other issues — expulsions of 35 diplomats and the closure of two Russian compounds — with economic sanctions so narrowly targeted that even those who helped design them describe their impact as largely symbolic.
  
• Obama also approved a previously undisclosed covert measure that authorized planting cyberweapons in Russia’s infrastructure, the digital equivalent of bombs that could be detonated if the United States found itself in an escalating exchange with Moscow. The project, which Obama approved in a covert-action finding, was still in its planning stages when Obama left office. It would be up to President Trump to decide whether to use the capability.
  

Keep in mind that "When the intelligence agency leaders approached Congress with their conclusions, Democrats wanted the information to go public, while Republicans felt that revealing the information would help the Russians' attempt to destroy confidence in the electoral process. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell even questioned the White House's conclusions based on the intelligence" and refused to issue a joint statement with Obama's administration...

So let me ask you back, what exactly has Trump willingly done about Russian meddling since he learned about it?

Read my status before you ignorantly blame me for being a fox newser or trump suporter, your google results left out Obama telling Medvedev that he would have more flexibility after election. Both parties can suck a big hairy one. They only care about protecting their own.