Thursday, July 20, 2017

Did the Russian Government manipulate the 2016 election?

In the recent news, all people have been hearing about is if the Russian government manipulated or got involved in the 2016 presidential election or not. There truly has been no evidence to prove if Russia did interfere or not and although we aren't the friendliest with their country I wouldn't be too sure if they actually were a threat to the election. Just because President Donald Trump and President Vladmir Putin talked and shared classified information with each other doesn't mean they necessarily were related to all the talk about manipulation in the election. Personally I don't think they did anything, because they would have been caught already, just like Trump would've been caught already if he colluded with Russia. They also have no evidence like I said. Now I have some articles about it, and discussion questions.


 http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/20/tom-bossert-blames-russia-election-hacks-240763

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445522/russian-election-hacking-fbi-not-investigating-trump-campaign

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/16/politics/ip-forecast-russia-revelations-and-russia-roadblocks/index.html


Discussion Questions:
1. Do you think Russia manipulated the 2016 Presidential Election?
2. If they did, why do you think?
3.Do you think Putin was part of why this is all being talked about? If so, why?

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