Media and Trump on two different wave lengths on Russia and the election

NY Times:

Trump Dismisses ‘Russia Hoax’ as Facebook Turns Over Ads Tied to Campaign

The president asserts that the “Fake News Media” had the most sway in the 2016 election, and he again denies any Russian role in the campaign.
They are arguing about two very different things.  Uppermost in Trump's mind is the bogus charge that he collaborated with Russia to steal an election.  That has been the Democrat narrative and the media has embraced it without finding any real evidence to corroborate it.  Mueller is looking increasingly desperate to try to find something he can hang his hat on or extort testimony out of targets like Manafort.

So, the media has been more focused of late on Russian attempts to peak at State voting.  As the post below indicated there were apparently 20 attempts by Russia to "hack" elections in the states.  However, none of them changed any votes or effected the results.  To Trump that goes to his fervent belief that he won the electoral college fair and square and he resents the "fake news" that his election was somehow tainted.

While I followed Facebook during the election, I do not recall the Russian propaganda ads, and I know for a fact they had nothing to do with my vote against Hillary Clinton.  The reasons I voted against her are too numerous to list in this brief post, but they were all related to her actions and not Putin's.

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