Dirty Tricks R US
15 min readOct 30, 2018
U.S. political elections have long been cut-throat, high-stakes, rules-breaking, hate-inducing games on all sides. But lately, the GOP is ‘winning’ this race to the bottom.
This article was updated on Nov. 3, 2020.
In July 2016, Donald Trump trailed Hillary Clinton in most polls and knew he needed to do something drastic to surge ahead. That’s when he issued a challenge in a news conference — not to his campaign, supporters or voters in general. But to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his network of slippery intelligence hackers.
