don’t have programs by which they use operatives to influence and interfere to manipulate elections/voters for certain candidates outside their own borders.
As far as trump? Helsinki never happened and his claim as a candidate “Russia, if you’re listening “ never happened. These along with multiple fairly obvious though tangential connections to foreign adversaries and happenings never occurred.
Trump then, had no reason to pardon Manafort, Bannon, Flynn and Stone. None of them were connected to Trump and none of them were convicted of felonies in service to him. None were connected in anyway to foreign services.
And the last 7 years in America didn’t happen.
I dig your logic.
In reality, your conditioning has been effective.
As for the 2000 elections - rigged? Let’s say the thumb of certain political moves in the State of Florida with the assistance of SCOTUS shimmied the process of counting ballots.
But in the end we can use a popular phrase - it is what it is.
Link: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures