Washington Post reporter: Trump voters are too stupid to understand Russia probe

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On Wednesday morning during an MSNBC segment, Washington Post White House Correspondent Ashley Parker suggested that the hard-to-pronounce Russian names were driving voters away from the Russian election meddling story.

During the segment, Hallie Jackson aired clips of her recent trip to Virginia, where she interviewed Trump supporters who said that they were not overly worried about the Russia investigation.

“What they didn’t talk a lot about was Russia, you bring it up and then the sense is ‘well maybe that is a concern, but not at the top of my mind,’” Jackson said.

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“Everybody has said there is nothing illegal about what he did,” said Trump voter Lori Valantiejus in a clip shown by Jackson. “It might have been a stupid choice, but we all make stupid choices.”

Jackson then asked Parker her opinion on whether or not reporters should stop focusing on the Russia investigation, according to Mediate, and Parker seemed to suggest that Trump voters were simply not smart enough to keep up with the reporting, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t important.

“No, the reporters report on news and are going to continue to uncover that, but I do think it is worth remembering in the beltway…what doesn’t matter to voters,” Parker said. “And in a way it’s understandable that Russia is not the most trenchant issue, it’s not related to their day to day lives, if they can drop their kids at daycare, if they can put food on the table, and it’s very complicated. These names are incredibly hard to pronounce, there’s lots of confusing connections, there’s now eight people, they dripped out one by one, I mean there is not an easy narrative to take stock of.”

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