Following a day where the intelligence community leaders attended a Senate hearing to discuss Russian hacking, and the Washington Post released a report indicating intelligence agencies intercepted communications from senior Russian officials celebrating Donald Trump’s victory, Trump took to Twitter to give his take on the whole situation.
First, he complained about NBC getting a look at the report given to President Obama.
How did NBC get "an exclusive look into the top secret report he (Obama) was presented?" Who gave them this report and why? Politics!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
Then, he questioned whether the DNC was even hacked since he said the FBI never examined the computer servers, likely referring to this report by CNN .
The Democratic National Committee would not allow the FBI to study or see its computer info after it was supposedly hacked by Russia……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
So how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers? What is going on?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
Trump has been extremely skeptical of the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the election to influence it for Trump’s benefit. After it was reported the CIA concluded this, Trump called the conclusion “ridiculous.” He also said it was time to move on to bigger and better things after Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for the hacking.
This week, Trump has mocked the intelligence community on Twitter while seemingly siding with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange over America’s own intelligence agencies.
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