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doc03

(35,459 posts) Mon Jan 14, 2019, 09:49 PM Jan 2019

Remember election day in 2016 election when DU was hacked

and a video played over and over. It was poorly made like something that would come out of Russia. As I remember
it showed Trump pointing a handgun out of his limo, pictured Putin along with racial slurs and slurs against gays.
Has it ever been determined who hacked DU and the origin of the video?

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Remember election day in 2016 election when DU was hacked (Original Post) doc03 Jan 2019 OP

I recall it was election night. RandySF Jan 2019 #1

I corrected it, you are right it was election day. nt doc03 Jan 2019 #4

It was Election Day. It was terrible. onecaliberal Jan 2019 #9

DU was hacked Election Day Sanity Claws Jan 2019 #2

I don't think anything would have changed in the election if DU hadnt gone down. bearsfootball516 Jan 2019 #12

Probably no single thing would have changed the election Sanity Claws Jan 2019 #13

It wasn't the day after, it was the day of BumRushDaShow Jan 2019 #3

This vid.... alittlelark Jan 2019 #5

That is some sick shit nt doc03 Jan 2019 #7

Was the hack ever investigated by the FBI? dem4decades Jan 2019 #6

I have seen the subject brought up here on DU a few times but doc03 Jan 2019 #8

Here was Skinner's summary message BumRushDaShow Jan 2019 #11

I remember it well D_Master81 Jan 2019 #10

RandySF

(59,876 posts)

1. I recall it was election night.

Reply to doc03 (Original post)

Mon Jan 14, 2019, 09:50 PM

Jan 2019

doc03

(35,459 posts)

4. I corrected it, you are right it was election day. nt

Reply to RandySF (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 14, 2019, 09:52 PM

Jan 2019

onecaliberal

(33,014 posts)

9. It was Election Day. It was terrible.

Reply to doc03 (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:09 PM

Jan 2019

Sanity Claws

(21,866 posts)

2. DU was hacked Election Day

Reply to doc03 (Original post)

Mon Jan 14, 2019, 09:51 PM

Jan 2019

not the day after.

No doubt this was part of the entire plan to disrupt the election.

bearsfootball516

(6,378 posts)

12. I don't think anything would have changed in the election if DU hadnt gone down.

Reply to Sanity Claws (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:25 PM

Jan 2019

It was likely some troll in a basement with too much time on his hands. Russia doesn’t care about a few hundred older Democrats on a message board.

Sanity Claws

(21,866 posts)

13. Probably no single thing would have changed the election

Reply to bearsfootball516 (Reply #12)

Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:56 PM

Jan 2019

That is why a plan has many different parts.

DU going down on election day meant that the tens of thousands who come here could not coordinate, talk about what they are seeing, etc.