Donald Trump 'not denying Russia was behind hacking campaign', says Priebus

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump 'not denying Russia was behind hacking campaign', says Priebus

President-elect’s incoming White House chief of staff says
Trump ‘accepts the findings’ of a report on Russian interference
in the election

Alan Yuhas
Sunday 8 January 2017 20.27 GMT

Donald Trump no longer denies that Russia orchestrated a cyberattack against Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her party, according to his top advisers, who also blamed Democrats for the breach and falsely characterized the testimony of an intelligence chief to Congress.

Trump’s incoming White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, told Fox News Sunday the president-elect “is not denying that entities in Russia were behind this particular hacking campaign”.

“I think he accepts the findings,” Priebus said, referring to an FBI, CIA and NSA report on Russian interference in the election. A declassified version was released to the public on Friday, asserting that Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, “ordered” the operation to get Trump elected. Trump received a classified briefing earlier that day.

Priebus then tried to diminish the effects of the hack, which was for the US an unprecedented campaign of releasing stolen emails, through proxies such as WikiLeaks, from selected candidates and staffers.

“When this whole thing started, it started from the Russians 50 years ago, in other words this is something that has been going on in our elections for many many years,” Priebus said. “It happens every election period.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/08/donald-trump-not-denying-russia-hacking-report-reince-priebus

Note to self: Shop for a higher capacity bullsh*t meter. Priebus keeps maxing out the old one.

[tecelote]

1. We need to have some fake news ourselves. "Putin supports Bernie Sanders over Trump"

Let's see what Republicans have to say about that!

[CentralMass]

2. No thanks, Trump can have the dubious honor.

[tecelote]

3. Agreed. I was not serious.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

4. Pribus ........

“When this whole thing started, it started from the Russians 50 years ago, in other words this is something that has been going on in our elections for many many years,” Priebus said. “It happens every election period.”

And this just makes it right? Asshole

[Volaris]

5. 'It happens every election period.'

No it fucking doesn't.
And if it has been, and you've KNOWN about it, why didn't you think to say something about it AT LEAST to America's intelligence services?

Because it doesn't, and you know it, and you're fucking lying.