Too soon? Nah!
Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock was quite the fan of President Donald Trump before he killed 58 people and left another 500 injured—the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
Paddock, a millionaire who reportedly would gamble up to $1 million a night in casinos, was attracted to the president's politics because of the boost the stock market has enjoyed since Trump took office, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo told KLAS, a local CBS affiliate in Las Vegas, during a two-hour interview.
Paddock said "he was happy with Trump because the stock market was doing well," Lombardo said.And, on the Russian meddling front:
This shit-talkin’, gun-lovin’, Trump votin’ all American (racist) gal was actually...a Russian propaganda account.https://t.co/OuQigkbzD1— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) November 3, 2017
The Associated Press reports on how Russians hacked the emails at the Democratic National Committee, and on the timing of the release of those (edited) emails on a critical date - October 7:
The same afternoon, just as the American electorate was digesting a lewd audio tape of Trump boasting about sexually assaulting women, WikiLeaks began publishing the emails stolen from Podesta.
The publications sparked a media stampede as they were doled out one batch at a time, with many news organizations tasking reporters with scrolling through the thousands of emails being released in tranches. At the AP alone, as many as 30 journalists were assigned, at various times, to go through the material.
Guccifer 2.0 told one reporter he was thrilled that WikiLeaks had finally followed through.
“Together with Assange we’ll make america great again,” he wrote.Guccifer - Assange - and Trump.
