Obama isn't a Muslim. Plus he was born in the United States.
Trump isn't a Russian spy. He is just an egotistical arrogant ass who refuses to say he accepts that Russia has hacked America not because it isn't true, but because he doesn't want to admit that Russia influenced the presidential race because it would mean admitting he didnt win fair and square, and he can't handle that. So, he will put his own ego above the security of our country....not someone that should be president.
The released documents did not convince voters to vote for Trump or against Clinton. Trump won in spite of a withering storm of negative news stories and fabricated claims and the DNC handing journalists talking points to be reported as fact. You would think that all that would have convinced many Trump leaning voters to change their minds.
The strategic timed release of the Trump tape, where the news organizations held the information until it would, in theory, harm Trump the most.
Russia did not hack the FBI, force Clinton to install and use an illegal email set up, coerce Comey to exhonerate her from the crimes she committed, or any of the immoral/unethical truths revealed by the email dumps. Many voters voted early, by mail, before the emails were made public.
Clinton was a known commodity from her decades in the public domain. Her own actions simply reinforce why she is unpopular and scandal-ridden. Unlike all candidates for all offices except those who go to prison.
Even after the emails released, she was a heavy favorite in the polls, right up to the very end. There is no correlation between an October/November surprise and how people decided.
The only real effect of the email releases was the resignation of the head of the DNC (Wasserman-Schultz) to be replaced by Donna Brazille (a winner in the Bill Clinton days).
It's possible the Truth convinced Sanders voters to not support Clinton, but they were convinced anyway long before the email releases.
There is the actual possibility that Trump was the superior candidate. He won, he spent far less money, and his calling her "Crooked" stuck. Lock her up! In spite of denial of the pundits (that crowd size mattered), she failed to draw decent sized crowds without the help of something like a Springsteen performance while Trump played to massive crowds throughout. Anecdotally, as I drove around my neighborhood, the Trump yard signs outnumbered the Clinton ones 3 or 4 to 1 - in California.
She made a number of strategic errors. She failed to defend the states she had a wide lead but Trump needed to win. What blue wall?
No matter what is claimed the Russians did, it paled in comparison to what our own media did. From outright name calling to lies like he had a nervous breakdown in the 1990s. Constant stream of hate Trump, rah rah Clinton. RT had a teenie fraction of that kind of audience.
The claims the Russian government hacked the DNC were made as early as June. The voters were free to consider the source.
And certainly the vote itself was not hacked.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/demographics-not-hacking-explain-the-election-results/
Demographics, Not Hacking, Explain The Election Results
