Turns out Trump was right about the Access Hollywood tapes

President-Elect Donald Trump took to social media today to find answers to some very serious questions:

Within minutes, Trump received over 118 thousand 'reactions' and nearly 10 thousand comments. While the response time for such a complex query is impressive, the results were less than stellar.

Had he done a simple Google search for "obama accused russia" he would have gotten the following article as results:

• Obama administration accuses Russian government of election-year hacking
• U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with elections
• It's Official: Obama Administration Accuses Russia Of Election Meddling
• U.S. Says Russia Directed Hacks to Influence Elections
• Obama administration publicly blames Russia for DNC hack

Quite clearly, we can see that the White House did in fact alert the nation and 'complain' about Russian hacking influencing the election on October 7, 2016 (well before election day)

While this blatant disregard for chronology and the obvious lack of current events knowledge may be a cause for concern or scorn from his critics, we as a nation should give Trump a little bit of leeway in this case. October 7, 2016 was a pretty busy day inside Trump Tower. A lot of things happening. Most notably this:

Here is my statement. pic.twitter.com/WAZiGoQqMQ

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2016

So you can understand Trump's confusion on the details of this issue. Everybody was talking about this whole Russian hacking thing for like 2 hours on October 7 and then no one talked about it again until mid December. We had Trump talking about grabbing women, Hurricane Matthew killing hundreds in Haiti, peace treaties in Syria were falling apart... Russia hacking political campaigns and releasing emails to Wikileaks was nowhere near the top of the list of interesting things happening that day.

Perhaps Trump was right all along. We should have just ignored the sexual assault allegations and focused on the issues. Maybe then, democrats wouldn't have gotten so complacent that they ignored the fact that a foreign government had interfered with our election. Well I guess we can give them some credit, they stopped ignoring it once Jill Steins recount bid fizzled out.

While it is clear that Trump is, at a minimum, willfully ignorant on the Russian hacking issue, I think it's pretty disingenuous for liberal-types, myself included, to complain about a 'stolen election' if at the end of the day, a clear choice was made by the Clinton campaign to focus on the Access Hollywood video and not on the fact that a very real effort to undermine our election process was happening right in plain sight. If this is the biggest issue today... it should have been the bigger issue then.