Obama: “There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America’s elections, in part because they’re so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved,” Obama said.
“There’s no evidence that that has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time,” he continued. “And so, I‘d advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.”
Roenweasel: There’s no allegation in this indictment that the Americans knew they were corresponding with Russian intelligence officers.
There’s no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime. There’s no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result.
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2009: Fawning reset button with Putin.
2012: Confidential promise of "flexibility" with Putin.
2014: De facto acceptance of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea.
2015: Nuclear deal reached with Iran over the protests of Netanyahu.
2015: Ordered America’s abstention from a UN Security Council resolution profoundly damaging to Israel
2015: The State Department paid $350k in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel's parliamentary elections.
And, John Brennan has no room to complain. He was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2013 to January 2017.
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Dec. 16, 2016 -
President Barack Obama said Friday that he told Russian President Vladimir Putin in September to
“cut it out” in regard to allegations that his nation engaged in cyberattacks against the U.S. electoral process. Obama added that further hacking by Russia did not occur following Obama’s admonition.
By the time Obama and Putin met face-to-face, the Russian cyberattack against the Democratic National Committee had already occurred. Obama said that in speaking with his Russian counterpart, his goal was to prevent any attacks against actual election infrastructure.
“What I was concerned about in particular was making sure [the DNC hack] wasn't compounded by potential hacking that could hamper vote counting, affect the actual election process itself,” the president said at his end-of-year press conference. “So in early September when I saw president Putin in China, I felt that the
most effective way to ensure that that didn't happen was to talk to him directly and
tell him to cut it out and there were going to be serious consequences if he didn't. And in fact we did not see further tampering of the election process.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/obama-putin-232754
(evidently Obama wasn't very effective)