And yet for 4 years all we heard was how the Russians stole the election.
The Russian interference was not fake news...
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-2016-u-s-elections
If that was enough to steal an election or not we don't know - and no one ever asserted it.
Still, there's Trump on record asking Russian cybercrooks to compromise Democrats systems - and it happened, also.
Another kind of Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, it looks. After all, dictators understand better each other than they understand those pesky democratic leaders. who keep on talking about "respect", "rules", "checks and balances", etc. etc.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
