The Russians Already Came ...

CNBC is reporting that the Mueller group has indicted 13 Russian individuals and three organizations on charges of interfering in our elections.

A federal grand jury has indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential elections, during which they boosted the candidacy of Donald Trump, special counsel Robert Mueller's office said Friday.

While that effort was launched in 2014, by early to mid-2016 the defendants were "supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump ... and disparaging Hillary Clinton," the indictment charges.

On one day, Nov. 12, 2016, the defendants organized a rally in New York to "show your support for President-elect Donald Trump" while at the same time organizing a "Trump is NOT my president rally" that also was held in New York.

Let’s analyze the above. The effort started in 2014 when Trump was not yet a candidate. When Trump won the nomination, virtually 100% of American pundits gave him no chance of winning. So the Russians backed him. After Trump (improbably) won, the Russians organized rallies both to support and to oppose him.

What should we conclude? That Russians have a goal to mess up American society. That’s not exactly news, is it? We’ve been enemies since at least 1945.

The Russians backed the (supposedly) losing candidate to sow discord, to screw us up, to create more internal chaos. Perhaps by their lights they have succeeded, the so-called Democrat “resistance” is evidence.

The Democrats have been scrupulously following the Russian playbook and hating on our elected President. You have to read far down in the story to see this:

Rosenstein said there is no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in the scheme, nor is there any allegation that the scheme affected the outcome of the election.

I ask you to consider CNBC’s factually true but intentionally misleading headline for the linked article:

Special counsel Mueller: Russians conducted ‘information warfare’ against U.S. during election to help Donald Trump win

It is equally true that if Clinton had been widely predicted to lose the Russians would have helped her. The goal was societal disruption, not a Trump victory.

Somehow the CNBC headline writer doesn’t manage to convey that message. Democrats keep trying to excuse the Clinton loss.