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>>option+(OP)
People should consider this claim with the same scrutiny as the claim that Russia was behind SolarWinds.

>>themar+G4
I do find it slightly bizarre that on HN, a website run by ycombinator i.e. Americana, seemingly the Russians always get the benefit of the doubt. Similarly with the President actually. The politics here is quite hard to characterise.

>>mhh__+15
Personally I just give everything the Trump administration says high scrutiny. Just lie after lie, mistruth after mistruth, so that it's hard to believe anything that someone outside them doesn't back up. Especially on computer security... the absolute level of obvious falsehood and idiotic statements from Trump and his supporters about election security would be farcical if it wasn't so destructive to American democracy and democratic norms.

But I believe that, while legitimate election security researchers have all basically said there is no reason to doubt the election or believe there was any sort of widespread fraud or abuse (and such statements conform to what was said in court, where lawyers can face consequences for stating falsehoods), legitimate computer security researchers outside the Trump Administration have pointed to Russia on the Solarwinds hack, so I give that claim more credence.