As Trump became the 'Putin agent'

The US Democratic Party has found a new slogan for his campaign: "Trump is Putin agent." However, for now, this motto has only given more force to the Republican candidate's campaign. In recent days, the eccentric billionaire first took the lead in the polls over former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House.

The scandal of the leak of 19,000 e-mails exchanged by the party chairman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and six other leaders broke out on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in which Clinton was officially presented as a presidential candidate. It turned out (and had already suspected) explicit evidence that the party machine had been used by the State to former secretary to favor over rival Bernie Sanders in the primary. Accused of abuse of "administrative resource," Schultz resigned even before the convention.

And now, as the "patriots" Russians always put the blame for all the ubiquitous US State Department, the US Democrats want to turn the internal failure of the party in an electoral advantage, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin, was behind the hackers who broke into private correspondence - hackers, that is, the FSB or the GRU, the main intelligence agency. This theory is being analyzed by the FBI and important members of the Obama administration.

'Everything is possible'

Journalists Circle US Secretary of State, John Kerry, made inquiries trenchant on the subject to the Minister of Russian Foreign Sergei Lavrov during talks between the two in Laos, on the 26th.

Obama also was one step closer to officially accuse Moscow. "Everything is possible," said the US president, when asked by an NBC reporter if Russia could have influenced the US elections to favor Trump. "And I think Trump has a very favorable coverage here in Russia," he added.

It turns out that one of the main goals of the US election campaign, judging by this logic, is to elect a president who does not like Putin. As the United States did not have to face major problems.

Not even the former NSA agent, Edward Snowden, who denounced a US mass surveillance program could not be silent on his political asylum in Russia. He reminded everyone that the National Security Agency and the CIA have a program called xkeyscore, which was launched in 2013 to help determine the place of a hacker attack origin. When North Korea was accused of breaking into Sony's website, in 2014, the xkeyscore was instrumental in the investigation. Currently, however, the US administration is limited to references or directs the charges to private companies specialized in cybersecurity.

Backfired

Whatever the case, the use of such a strange weapon - basically "dirty laundry that washes at home" - against Trump may have unexpected effects for Democrats.

First, experienced political analysts know that "negative campaign" in excess and slander can backfire: who is painted as the devil by his opponents, sooner or later begin to earn points. One can not spot a person in such a blatant manner.

Moreover, as the Republican ideologue Patrick Buchanan responded to accusations from Democrats, the United States was "the first" to interfere in the policies of other countries using NGOs (whose performances were restricted in Russia, China and recently in Israel) and other spying methods and internet surveillance.

Buchanan also insists that if Russia illegally invaded emails from Democrats, then the country should receive a Pulitzer Prize journalism - by revealing methods of dirty manipulation and subversion of honest elections.

That's what "The New York Times" made in the 1970s when he published secret documents of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations on preparations for the Vietnam War, revealing dirty methods and provocations. It was for these publications that the newspaper received the Pulitzer Prize in 1971. "Why not assign it to Putin now?" Buchanan said sarcastically.

To some extent, I agree with him. But the fact is that more than 19,000 e-mail the Democratic Party that Wikileaks released show that Hillary did not win the primary honestly. And Trump has nothing to do with it. Neither Putin.

Georgui Bovt is member of the Council for Foreign and Defence Policy.