BREAKING: Russia Also Tilted Key Congressional Races

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5. The news media collaborated.

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I can hear the arguments now, that Wikileaks was merely the messenger and little else, to which I call bullsh*t. Without the fruit of the poisoned tree, Wikileaks wasn't a player. Assange reveled in the attention, with little care as to what his partnership with Russian hackers might do to American politics.

And as we know now, it's done grave harm. Whether you view that harm as simply destabilizing our political process or electing a failed reality show host as President, it has done deep, lasting harm to our democracy and to our standing around the world.

Only one country benefits from that, and it isn't us.

Now. Either our ruling party -- aka Republicans -- are going to behave like Americans and admit that they enjoy the benefit of foreign interference in our elections, or they're not. If they don't, then they are intentionally aiding and abetting foreign aggression against American democracy.