Two parts to FBI investigations - 1. Clinton/Sanders emails. 2. Russian social media bots Trump & Russia.

As I stated previously my Coatesville Dems Blog audience included a handful of views a month from Russia over the years. I thought the Russian audience was connected to white nationalists here in the United States. 

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Insider the Alt-Right/All-Russia Nexus 

By JOSH MARSHALL 

Published MARCH 21, 2017, 7:17 PM EDT

Sometime after the presidential primaries were over the Russian audience on Coatesville Dems Blog picked up. By the end of August, Russia, which on the Google stats map includes all of the former Soviet Union, was one half of the audience of my blog.

“The countries where my blog is viewed are under "Audience" in Google Stats.  For about 3 months it would be something like, 1636 page views per week - United States and 1600 page views for Ukraine and Russia. The other countries would make up about 100 page views. The page views for Ukraine and Russia dropped like a switch was thrown a few weeks before the election. I’m not sure when the Eastern Bloc stuff began.” 

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Tuesday, December 13, 2016 

One half of "page-views" came from Former Soviet Bloc nations.

I conclude that whomever was looking at my blog from Russia was uninterested in the Democratic Primary but exceedingly interested in the Clinton/Trump race.

It appears that the FBI investigations into the 2016 elections are divided into 2 separate investigations. 

1. Clinton emails during the primary with Bernie Sanders.
2. Social media bots from sources in Russia that spread damaging information, sometimes totally false, sometimes partly true that came after the primary elections were over. And connections between Trump and Russia.

U.S. based Alt-Right computer nerds were generating their own anti-Clinton pro-Trump bots but may have had assistance from Russians. 

SEE: 

How Pepe the Frog Became a Nazi Trump Supporter and Alt-Right Symbol 

4chan’s Pepe the Frog meme was wildly popular among ‘normies’—until white nationalists decorated him with swastikas and gave him a Trump button. 

Olivia Nuzzi

05.26.16 1:00 AM ET  

Since any middle school kid with computer skills could have hacked the wide open to anyone server in the Clinton's home, the only FBI investigation of significance is the Russian social media bots investigation and connections between Russia and the Trump administration. 

 Mr. Comey described, in fairly blistering terms, a set of email practices that left Mrs. Clinton’s systems wide open to Russian and Chinese hackers, and an array of others. She had no full-time cybersecurity professional monitoring her system. She took her BlackBerry everywhere she went, “sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.” Her use of “a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent.” 

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Hillary Clinton’s Email Was Probably Hacked, Experts Say

By DAVID E. SANGER JULY 6, 2016

Apparently the FBI investigation is not a criminal investigation but is an investigation into the techniques used by the social media bot creators in Russia to prevent future Russian attacks using social media bots. As always if any information of criminal activity shows up the FBI will pursue a criminal investigation.

“That includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts, As with any counterintelligence investigation it will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed.“

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FBI Director James Comey Full Opening Statement (C-SPAN)

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FBI Director James Comey Takes On New Role Fact-Checking the President’s Tweets

"Howard said that, as an example, bots had spread links to fictional stories that accused Clinton of involvement in running a child-sex ring in the basement of a Washington pizza parlor. The posts inspired a North Carolina man to drive to Washington and fire an assault weapon in the restaurant, according to police reports."

Ok, so Howard hints that the Pizzagate story might have been propagated by Russian bots. Perhaps, but I think that people actually believed it to be true is more significant than if the Russians might have helped to distribute the Pizzagate story.

AND NOW THERE'S THIS: 

"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests. 

Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse."

AP Exclusive: Manafort had plan to benefit Putin government

By JEFF HORWITZ and CHAD DAY

The FBI should be looking into Russia using social media. Russia could use social media in the local and state elections coming up. And It seems that there are strong links between Russia and the Trump Administration. 

Did Russia help Trump win the election? Since Clinton was the most disliked and hated presidential candidate in recent years, the answer is a loud and clear NO. 

Hillary Clinton lost to a carnival barker TV clown who built casino hotels with his Russian Mayfia business partners. Republicans didn't win the 2016 elections, Democrats lost them. Democrats lost nearly all the 2016 elections, federal, state and local. Under the leadership of the Clintons the Democratic Party in the states and in Washington is a minority party with 25% of voters nationwide.

On Bill Maher Real Time Show and on the Overtime Show here. The 2010 presidential election was discussed. They said Democrats need a charismatic candidate. During the entire shows the words Bernie Sanders never came up.

Here Barney Frank basically says all that Democrats need to do is go to sleep and when they wake up Trump and the Republicans will have imploded. 

Russia Investigation, Dodd-Frank, 2020 Candidates, SCOTUS | Overtime with Bill Maher