{"id":28103,"date":"2016-12-22T13:56:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=28103"},"modified":"2016-12-22T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:56:36","slug":"ron-paul-purported-russian-hack-in-us-election-is-insignificant-compared-to-what-us-does-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/22\/ron-paul-purported-russian-hack-in-us-election-is-insignificant-compared-to-what-us-does-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: Purported Russian Hack in US Election is Insignificant Compared to What US Does Overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s politics more than anything else,\u201d says former House of Representatives Member Ron Raul (R-TX) regarding calls for an investigation of purported hacking by the Russian government influencing the United States presidential election. Interviewed Wednesday on Fox Business, Paul continues that, even if Russia did what is alleged, Paul does not think it \u201cmade any difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul \u2014 providing perspective on the matter \u2014 notes that the US government is interfering with elections around the world \u201call the time.\u201d Paul also suggests reviewing the history of US government involvement in foreign countries, including \u201chow many countries we invaded, how many people we have killed in order to have our guy in.\u201d Looking to this history, Paul concludes, \u201cwe don\u2019t have much room for condemning anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch here a clip from the interview, in which Paul also comments regarding the Texas member of the Electoral College who cast a vote for Paul for president on Monday:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-eZkt3Dye2c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s politics more than anything else,\u201d says former House of Representatives Member Ron Raul (R-TX) regarding calls for an investigation of purported hacking by the Russian government influencing the United States presidential election. Interviewed Wednesday on Fox Business, Paul continues that, even if Russia did what is alleged, Paul does not think it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28105,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28103\/revisions\/28105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28103"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}