Priebus: ‘The Russians Didn’t Tell Hillary Clinton to Ignore Wisconsin or Michigan’

Reince Priebus continued to push back against reports on Russian hacking on ABC’s This Week this morning, arguing that talk of potential interference can’t brush aside the mistakes Hillary Clinton made on the campaign trail.

As George Stephanopoulos continued to press him on the intelligence community’s conclusions on Russian interference, Priebus said this:

“The Russians didn’t tell Hillary Clinton to ignore Wisconsin and Michigan, okay?… She lost the election because her ideas were bad, she didn’t fit the electorate, she ignored states that she shouldn’t have, and Donald Trump was the change agent.”

Stephanopoulos said he’s not questioning Trump’s victory, but pressed Priebus on why Trump does not believe the intel community on this.

Priebus got heated and said that no one can draw conclusions from unnamed sources in a few different reports, saying he “can’t have an intelligent conversation with you” about such things.

Watch above, via ABC.

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