From Electoral Bonds & EVMs to manipulating the election schedule, NaMo TV, “Modi’s Army” & now the drama in Kedarnath; the Election Commission’s capitulation before Mr Modi & his gang is obvious to all Indians. The EC used to be feared & respected. Not anymore.
Rahul Gandhi
How Russian meddling won
Trump the Presidency
The controversy over the functioning of the EC has been so compelling and loud enough for former President Pranab Mukherjee to come out and share his views over alleged security breaches in the EVM.
Majority of analysts have clearly indicated discrepancies in so called biased exit poll results, reports of potential breaches in EVM have made headlines in the last 24 hours.
The Election Commission responded but is that enough?
Where there is smoke there is fire. Rahul Gandhi and opposition parties claim to the electronic voting machines being meddled up with – can not be entirely baseless and is stemming from some factual authenticity.
Deepak Kaistha
It can not be just brushed under the carpet and must be treated with utmost seriousness, learning a lesson from US 2016 Presidential elections and how Russian meddling won Trump the Presidency.
Here’s what happened in US Presidential elections in 2016
According to U.S. intelligence agencies, Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, begins a cyber campaign aimed at interfering with the 2016 presidential election around this time.
March 2016
According to U.S. intelligence agencies, Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, begins a cyber campaign aimed at interfering with the 2016 presidential election around this time.
June 2016
Shortly after Trump’s foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos hears the Russians have obtained dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort meet with a Russian lawyer and others at Trump Tower in New York. Emails made public later show Trump Jr. believed he would receive information harmful to Clinton.
July 2016
Christopher Steele, a former British spy assigned by the Democratic National Committee to investigate Trump’s Russia connections, briefs an FBI agent on his findings.
WikiLeaks releases 44,000 emails hacked from the Democratic nominating convention the day before the DNC at which Clinton became her party’s nominee. The content of some of the emails prompts the resignation of DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, causing further upset and instability within the Democratic party.
Later in July the FBI begins a counter-intelligence investigation of Russian meddling in the election.
October 2016
Within an hour of the airing of the famous “Access Hollywood” video in which Trump brags about sexually harassing women, WikiLeaks begins publishing thousands of private emails belonging to John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman.
December 2016
Despite The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Office of Director of National Intelligence issuing a statement publicly blaming Russia for the election-related computer hacks, Trump wins the presidential election on November 8, 2016. In response to the hacking, Obama places sanctions on Russian intelligence agencies and individuals.
After the sanctions are announced, National security aide Michael Flynn holds a series of phone calls with Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States.
Jan-Feb 2017
10 days before Trump is sworn in as President, BuzzFeed publishes the Steele “dossier” detailing alleged collusion between Trump’s campaign and Moscow.
Shortly after Trump is signed in, Flynn resigns as Trump’s national security adviser for having lied about his talks with Kislyak.
March-May 2017
FBI Director James Comey publicly confirms the bureau’s Russia counter-intelligence investigation for the first time.
A month and a half later, Trump fires Comey and attributes the firing to “this Russia thing”.
Source: Apester ( How Russian meddling won Trump the Presidency)
