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The troll has a history of refusing to acknowledge right-wing terror in the US.

It will be interesting if the Charlottesville terrorist attack enables Republicans to start openly condemning the extreme right and maybe the troll also. But many seem to be sticking by him for now.

If the troll sincerely disapproves of right-wing bigotry and violence, here is how he can show he means it.

Instead, he has shown that that statement was a throw-away line, an excuse to deny his continued support for right-wing bigotry and violence.

In the US: Stand united against the right-wing extremists.

In the US: call on government officials at all levels to remove all symbols that honor the rebel side of the civil war.

The purpose of their rebellion was to perpetuate slavery. The Union soldiers fought to end slavery, and sung about that as they marched.

No matter what admirable personal characteristics some southern leaders may have had, that can't redeem the evil that they fought for — not even slightly.

Protesters in North Carolina (not so far from Charlottesville) pulled down a memorial to soldiers that fought for slavery.

Defacing a statue reduces the dignity of those who do it. Pulling the statue down is more dignified. However, the best form of victory is to pressure officials to remove the statue. For a state to have a special law privileging statues that honor the war to continue slavery is an endorsement of that side, which dishonors that state.

Forensic researchers claim that analysis of some of the metadata of DNC leak files shows that the files were copied first onto a USB memory, not obtained by cracking the DNC server externally.

Please don't refer to breaking security as "hacking"; the proper name for that is "cracking".

They also claim that some of the leaked files had been pasted into a template with some Russian characteristics, to make it appear that the leak was committed by Russians.

Wikileaks announced last year that received this material through an internal leak — it was not obtained by cracking.

I don't follow what the article says about Forensicator's special access to the metadata of the files, and I don't see convincing evidence that we can rely on the statements attributed to him. But I also don't see any convincing proof that Russia was involved in these leaks (though I wouldn't put it past Putin).

There are so many suspicious ties between the troll and Russia that an investigation is clearly called for; but I don't see proof that the troll is guilty of criminal plotting with Russia in what has been revealed to the public. Meanwhile, other crimes such as obstruction of justice must be investigated too.