After Security Meeting, Trump Admits Possibility of Russian Hacking

[DonViejo]

Source: New York Times



By MICHAEL D. SHEARJAN. 6, 2017

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump acknowledged the possibility on Friday that Russia had hacked a variety of American targets, including the Democratic National Committee, after an almost two-hour meeting with the nation’s top intelligence officials.

Mr. Trump asserted the hacking had no effect on the outcome of the election.

In a statement issued after the president-elect was briefed by senior American intelligence and law enforcement officials, Mr. Trump said: “While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyberinfrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines.”

For months, Mr. Trump had publicly resisted any suggestion that Russia was involved in cyberattacks during the 2016 presidential election and had mocked the intelligence agencies behind assessments on Russian hacking. After Friday’s briefing, he said he has “tremendous respect” for the people who work for American spy agencies.


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[mac56]

1. Oh, well, then.

We were just being silly.

[pbmus]

2. In other words, the Big Con says bullshit

[Freethinker65]

3. In other words...our intelligence has dirt on Trump and he should watch his step

[MANative]

4. What's eminently clear is that Conald didn't write that statement.

Not sure that he could even read it. Also, notice the "Democrat" versus "Democratic". Typical RW garbage.

[LisaM]

15. I had the exact same reaction.

It's all punctuated correctly, too.

[MANative]

36. And no spelling errors!

[Hortensis]

18. My thought exactly--the unnavigably complex thought.

[MindPilot]

19. "cyberinfrastructure"?

Don't think so Don; that word is longer than your attention span.

[MANative]

33. LOL - isn't that the truth!!

[putitinD]

27. Kellyanne CONway most likely wrote it for him.

[MANative]

34. True - she may be a first-class fool, but she can speak in complete sentences.

[riversedge]

35. I was thinking the same as I read it

[bucolic_frolic]

5. " ... there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines.

The fact that he feels the need to volunteer this observation makes
me wonder. Projection? Denial? Cover for something?

[JoeOtterbein]

6. YEP!

[Gin]

8. Yep!

[blue neen]

9. Right!

Why did the Groper feel the need to make that statement? Guilt?

[Botany]

11. ... there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines.

Project much Don?

[Skittles]

14. remember when he emphatically stated if he lost Pennsylvania it would be due to fraud

because he already knew the fix was in

the narcissistic fool cannot help bragging about himself

[JoeOtterbein]

16. I vote in PA, you click a button on a screen and who knows what happens next to your vote

[Generator]

24. 1 freaking percent in all 3 must win states!

I rest my case.

[Skittles]

26. the electoral college made it very easy for these thieving bastards

[MindPilot]

21. Mindpilot's Basic Law of Marketing applies here:

"Whatever they are making a big deal about telling you it is or isn't; it probably isn't or is."

[riversedge]

38. Trump is very insecure. One thing that he and his surrogates have done daily is to say that

the hacking (if there was hacking) had no effect on the outcome. They will never admit that and it has become sacred to them. over and over they say that adnauseam!!

[Roy Rolling]

7. This Just In

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[NRaleighLiberal]

10. Don opens his mouth, using his tweetfingers, on a daily basis. Shitflow results.

There will never be anything useful or consistent coming from him. Whatever is most self serving - but of little to no true value.

[Tikki]

12. If the hacking had no effect on the election, why do it. Hillary had already shared her recipes.....

for cookies and cake.

Tikki

[Skittles]

13. HE IS SUCH A FUCKING FOOL

HE'S PUTIN'S LAPDOG

[2naSalit]

44. Perhaps you mean

TOOL? He's not smart enough to be a fool.

I think someone needs to call 911 for him... I think his erection has lasted more than four hours.

[Plucketeer]

17. Tremendous respect

and I intend to reassure them of that when I'm handing out pink slips.

[adigal]

20. So, this is his big conclusion abiut the importance of this

Do NOT tell me this man is not a narcissist

[Javaman]

22. in a much different time, this would have been tantamount to war.

but now it barely makes the national news.

[Generator]

23. No tampering of voting machines?

WHY mention that? Oh yeah-because everything he says is the opposite. He is has the biggest liars tell of anyone that ever lived.

[PatSeg]

25. He wasn't thinking about

how dangerous the Russians were to the United States, but how it might have affected him personally. What a great leader, gag.

[emulatorloo]

28. I bet Putin told him to say that n/t

[Ligyron]

29. I'll bet they had to be super careful not to reveal or compromise agents or ongoing investigations

knowing that this type of info would certainly get back to Puttin.

There again, this would be a perfect way to set up Trump for a charge of espionage/treason.

[Zoonart]

30. Sooooooo

"Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out." Robert Graves- I CLAUDIUS

[cstanleytech]

31. I think the largest reason he has refused to admit it is he fears he can be denied the Presidency

over it is which not likely unless of course he was involved in helping to carry it out which no evidence has been presented to show that he was.

[Satch59]

32. ALL he cares about is that the election machines weren't tampered with...

This is so nauseating... He really doesn't see the bigger picture, his only point of reference is how it affects him... Every member of his team and every GOP member of congress will be as guilty as he is WHEN something goes really wrong in this country or world due to his incompetence...

Gets scarier everyday...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

37. Trump can't stand the notion that he didn't win the election all by himself.

He's saying, "Well, yeah, they might have had a little peek at some stuff, but no way did they influence the election! No way! I won that all by myself fair and square. I won bigly! By a yuuge landslide! The Russians didn't help, not even a tiny bit. It was ALL ME! All of it!"

[riversedge]

39. As of just now, Trumpy has not tweeted about the Intel meeting.

[Doitnow]

40. That's his opinion today. What will it be tomorrow? Depends on who talks to him tonight.

[TubbersUK]

41. Looking at that statement

my guess is that he's now stuck.

He can't condemn Russia outright because of his links to their hacking/election manipulation. Yet he can't keep pushing back against the US security services without squandering political capital and raising eyebrows.

Hence today's pre-prepared, mealy mouthed statement.

Absent a way out, he's got a tiger by the tail.

[NCjack]

42. Comrade Trump: You are unworthy of the Office -- RESIGN!

[uppityperson]

43. Can you imagine how much they have to dumb down info for him to remotely understand?