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Trump officials asked CISA to secretly hack a voting machine — and not disclose any vulnerabilities they found (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 18 points 3 days ago (7 children)

His only real move in elections is to scream cheating. This is exactly what he wants to just declare the elections fake.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    He has two moves: to scream cheating, and to cheat himself.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago* (3 children)

    If he cheats, he still leaves the presidency. If he screams cheating, he can weasel a new election and provisory government. He doesn't care about the party either.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

    Why do you think he still leaves if he cheats? Who's going to find out, and who's going to hold him accountable. Even if it's discovered, he just yells that he's framed, and if that fails he yells that he had to, and if that fails then he just yells that he's allowed to, and there's nothing the government, under his control, is going to do to stop that.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Yeah, I wouldn't put it past him to cheat since he was caught cheating before, but I do believe the reason the Trump admin asked to keep any vulnerabilities under wraps is not so they could exploit them, but so they could delay the announcement of finding them after the results came in and invalidate the results if they ended up losing.

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