As articulated by John Daniel Davidson, Matt Taibbi and Natasha Bertrand, the much ballyhooed "Russiagate", has increasingly added something to the belief (as initially and dubiously claimed by the Democratic National Committee and its partisan cybersecurity source CrowdStrike) of a clandestine Russian government effort (perhaps with Donald Trump) to defeat Hillary Clinton in the last US presidential election. The scenario gaining momentum spins a broadly presented questionable claim about the Kremlin sowing discord in the US, with multi-pronged activity, which wasn't exclusive to backing Trump. Of the aforementioned three commentators, Taibbi responsibly presents that view as a possibility, unlike Davidson and Bertrand, who suggest it as a fact
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