164 times Donald Trump mentioned of WikiLeaks stolen Emails had an effect, but no impact on Election.
Sunday, January 08, 2017
VietPress USA (Jan. 8th, 2017):
Trump campaign manager: Trump’s 164 mentions of WikiLeaks stolen emails had an effect, but no impact on election
Kellyanne Conway says the DNC emails, apparently stolen by Russian hackers, didn’t matter because people already disliked Hillary Clinton
Kellyanne Conway CREDIT: CNN State of the UnionKellyanne Conway, who served as Donald Trump’s final campaign manager and will serve as his White House counselor, said on Sunday that the Wikileaks’ publication ofthousands of pagesof stolen Democratic National Committee emails by hackers apparentlyworking on behalf of Russiahad an effect on the campaign — but no impact.
As ThinkProgress reported on Saturday, Donald Trump mentioned the Wikileaks emails at least 164 times over the last month of the campaign as part of his argument against Hillary Clinton. But desperate to avoid any taint to the legitimacy of Trump’s election, Trump now claims they had “absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election.”
On CNN’s State of the Union host Jake Tapper played some of those 164 Trump Wikileaks citations for Conway and asked her “How can you say that the hacking had no impact on the election, when Mr. Trump kept invoking Wikileaks which was printing, publishing things that the Russians had hacked?”
Conway responded by saying “it had an effect on his debate answer and it had an effect on the Clinton campaign,” before again repeating some of the “embarrassing” things the stolen emails revealed. But she then quickly shifted gears, claiming that the “alleged attacks and aspirations to interfere with our democracy failed.”
Her reasoning: “Donald Trump won because of things having nothing to do with the hacks.” Pressed on why the campaign invoked Wikileaks if it wasn’t “to change public impressions of Hillary Clinton,” Conway shot back that Trump “didn’t need Wikileaks to convince the American people that they didn’t like her, didn’t trust her, didn’t find her to be honest.”
Still, the American people liked and trusted her candidate even less. Clinton received nearly3 million more votesthan Trump on election day.
