Russian Election Essay

During the 2016 presidential campaign, many information that were leaked by the internet caused a commotion throughout the public and our government. The information that was leaked were about Donald Trump supposedly colluding with Russia in order to manipulate the people to win as President of the United States. As the year passed, the government had launched an investigation against Trump to find the truth about working with the Russians. Throughout the internet, articles relating to Trump and his administration colluding with the the Russians do support the accusations of manipulating the campaign by the use of the author's rhetoric and writing techniques.

One country is comparable to the United States of America in terms of world power and prominence. Russia makes their name known beginning in World War 2 (WW2), later in the Korean War, Cold War, and today’s proxy war in the Syria. Russia’s culture, environment, politics, military, and economy do not just make Russia a regional powerhouse, but slowly becoming a region of influential power to surrounding countries with the end state of a global superpower. All the factors that make Russia the powerhouse that it is slowly becoming, highlights the impressive trend that supersedes the previous Soviet Union and past leaders.

What makes all of America concerned about President Trump. The relationship between President Trump and many citizens is shaky. This makes Leonhardt question why President Trump helps with his campaign when those people had a limited role in his success. Leonhardt questioned, "Do you remember Paul Manafort, the chairman of Trump's Champaign, who ran the crucial delegate-counting operation?” Leonhardt did not ask this question on accident. Leonhardt purposefully asked the question to answer it. The question interacts with his audience, which in effect guides one reading his editorial in the direction he wants one to think about President Trump. Leonhardt wanted to emphasize how Trump is a hypocrite. There is no way that Trump won his election by himself without much help, establishing an irritated angry tone. Leonhardt also adds a rhetorical questions by Adam Schiff in which Schiff asks, "Is it possible that all of these events and reports are completely unrelated, and nothing more than an entirely unhappy coincidence?" The rhetorical question means is that can the suspicious ties and encounters between Trump and Putin seriously be a fluke? Maybe; but nonetheless, Leonhardt incorporates this rhetorical question into his editorial even though he did not say it because it is not a coincidence. If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and smells like a duck, then that mysterious animal is a duck. The rhetorical question has an implied answer of maybe; however, the purpose of that rhetorical question is to further guide one reading his editorial in the direction Leonhardt wants his audience to think. Leonhardt does not trust President Trump and he wants everyone to understand why. President Trump is playing the hide and seek game, but it is not the same game children play. It is the game every lying president has

The 2016 presidential election seemed to be a particularly hectic election. On November 8,2016, I was checking my Facebook newsfeed. As I scrolled through my newsfeed, I see a lot of posts related to the election. People would post opinions on each of the presidential candidates as well as which their predictions of which candidate will win. The newspaper websites provided frequent updates throughout the day to inform people about the progress of the election. That night, I watched tentatively as the ballots were being counted, and I saw people’s comments of shock and disbelief when Trump managed to get ahead of Hillary in terms of electoral college votes.

Today, with the power of the internet and social media, information is much easier to access, with that, information on the Russian ties will come out faster than ever before. The access to social media is making the scandal much wider known to the American public. During the beginning of the Watergate scandal, most of the American public had little to no knowledge of the events until late in the case, in 2017, minutes after the emails hit wikileaks, articles were inside the pockets of almost every citizen in the United States. With the speed of the internet in today's time it is likely that we will

“The NSA has more satellites on American citizens than they do on Russians ”. This means the Russians are more likely to get away with things such as terrorism in America than

The Russian hacking of the DNC was an event filled with a great amount of confusion and skepticism. Many people do believe that the Russians were involved in hacking the DNC, leading to Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election. Other people, however, believe there is insufficient evidence to believe that something like this would occur; even if it did, these same people believed it was necessary because it exposed the faults of the DNC. The two articles that I selected discuss this situation in depth, but they write their stories by using different approaches. Sam Biddle, an author from the website, The Intercept, writes about how the information given to support the claims that the Russians hacked the DNC are not enough. The

The Bolshevik party was based on Marxist ideals, ideals which sought to rid society of class conflict and create an egalitarian society. After the fall of the provisional government, the Bolsheviks were now able to implement an economic policy of their own, introducing a form of communism called ‘War Communism’. It was a form of strict communism that, amongst many things, took money out of circulation and banned private enterprise. It should, therefore, seem surprising that the Bolshevik government got rid of this policy, a policy which espoused many Marxist principles of destroying interclass conflict through the abolition of private enterprise, and replacing it with the NEP, a policy which at first glance, may resemble something much more capitalist orientated than would one expect of a party based on communist ideals. The NEP was a policy that reintroduced “a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control” . This may have therefore have been a step back from achieving a Marxist utopia in the Russian State but it can be argued that the continuance of war communism would have ultimately led to the utter economic collapse of the Russian state and the NEP prevented this from occurring.

The background of the investigation is that Russia is being accused of hacking election systems and the emails accounts of Hillary Clinton's staff members. If Russia has the capability to hack America’s computers and rig votes, then this is a political issue, as the integrity of the American voting system has been jeopardize and President elect Trump may have not be the choice of the people. President elect has expressed deep admiration for Vladimir Putin, therefore he as alternate view of President Obama’s order to investigate. He has compared the order to Past President Clinton February 18, l998, statement in which he said Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. President elect disagrees with the order has chosen to compare it to a very bad time in our countries history. An article about President elect response was issued on December 9, 2016, it was written by Josh Gerstein, Jennifer Scholtes, Eric Geller and Martin Matishak, it is Trump breaks with Obama, intel agencies on election hacking. Information about Iraqi and the weapons of mass destruction can be found in CNN report of February 18, 2016 by James

For decades, the United States and Russia, formerly The Soviet Union, have held tensions with each other over different political stances and military actions and intelligence. Starting from the late years of World War II - when the Soviet Union had aggressively spread communism throughout Eastern Europe - up to a couple years ago when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine out of nowhere; their relationship has been a rollercoaster of a ride for these two countries. Even though the United States and Russia are no longer in a Cold War, there has been and continues to be tension between the two countries as exemplified by many events of conflict including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Russian military’s current presence in Syria.

Scandals, insults, and embarrassing are three words that can accurately define the 2016 election. Politicians have been using anything possible to edge out their opponents, publicizing every mistake in the form of commercials, photos, and social media. Arguably one of the biggest mistakes Hillary Clinton made is the scandal of her personal email and over 31,830 deleted messages. Leaders and politicians argue that Clinton put the country’s national security in danger by sending and receiving classified information over an easily hackable personal email address, and lying about it. Donald Trump, the republican candidate, has been using this scandal to exploit Hillary’s negative attributes and the potential effects that can arise having her as president. More specifically, Trump and his campaign team dedicated an ad titled “Betrayed” solely for the purpose of addressing this concern. While the 2016 Donald Trump political commercial is effective in conveying his message that Hillary Clinton is unfit and dangerous to fill the presidential position, the ad loses validity due to stylistic choices--such as the out-of-context video clips--and over dramatic tone.

Trumps campaign and presidency has been threatened by “russia-gate” from the beginning. recently this issue has yet again taken the center stage, with paul manafort undergoing charges of money laundering and conspiracy. Along with manafort, rick gates, another one of trump’s aides have been placed under house arrest and are being tracked by gps, judge amy jackson saying that both the men are “flight risks”. According to usa today “Prosecutors argued in a court filing this week that charges are serious, the case is strong, and the risk that Manafort and Gates will flee before trial is significant” on november 2nd in the court's first hearing. While both gates

The central question my paper asks is what effect social bots had on the 2016 United States Presidential Elections. In the introduction, I use the Pizzagate conspiracy theory that arose during the 2016 presidential elections as my exhibit for the motive. Throughout the paper, I examine other political rallies and protests to answer my central question. The conversation layer of my motive shows what previous scholars think the effect of social bots were in the 2016 presidential elections. Previous scholars agree that social bots could have affected the outcome of the election through promoting fake news and created a “manufactured consensus” around certain candidates. However, the scholars do not consider the effect of social bots in real life like what happened in the Pizzagate incident. The larger significance of my motive is that examining the effect of social bots in real life can help us determine the extent of social bots’ influence in the 2016 presidential election, which we can then use to protect American democracy from outside sources.

When Trump’s campaign was just taking off, “a 35 page dossier written by an ex British Intelligence agent compiled many allegations about Trump and Russia, even including that Russia had blackmail over Trump” (Osnos et al. 4). Senator of Arizona, John McCain, “passed the dossier to the FBI in hopes of an investigation being placed on Trump” (Osnos et al. 5). This was the start of Trump’s vengeance toward director of FBI, James Comey. When the dossier was released to the public, Trump and Putin had some words to say about it. They both “portrayed the dossier as a fake and full of false accusations” (Osnos et al. 3). This made the accusations of Trump and Russia being the arbitrators behind the hacking more evident than before (Osnos et al).

It was quite a shock when Ukraine was voted, along with Poland, a host country for Euro 2012 in 2007: could the championship really be held in this eastern European country, a former Soviet state, lacking a good infrastructure and an efficient administration? Nevertheless, the country started the preparations of the biggest sporting event it has yet organised. Only the future can tell us whether the transformation has been successful, but the assignment was not completely random, as Ukraine has been described as a “frontrunner” in Europeanisation, when compared to the oth-er countries in the Eastern Partnership. It is obvious that the proximity of the country to the EU plays an important role in this. The highly mobile population is