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I understand that this is illegal. What I don't understand is why domestic manipulation of elections isn't. Eric Schmidt and Rupert Murdoch don't have the interests of the US in mind any more then Putin does.

Just because it's quite precedented doesn't make it right.

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>domestic manipulation of elections

You mean campaigning?

Rupert Murdoch isn't himself running for president, but it's pretty clear that he is trying to manipulate the election into a particular outcome.

All the same arguments for why Putin's involvement should be illegal can also be levied against him.

Nevermind the US government, and its agencies manipulating elections throughout the world going on 70 years

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