CNN: Trump Still Unconvinced Russia Interfered In 2016 Election

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President Donald Trump remains unconvinced that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election despite tweets and White House statements to the contrary, CNN reported Wednesday afternoon.

NSA director Mike Rogers expressed frustration during a private briefing with lawmakers over his inability to convince Trump to believe the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the election, CNN reported, citing an unnamed congressional source familiar with the meeting.

Another unnamed congressional source told CNN that Rogers expressed concerns about the White House’s lack of concern regarding the ongoing threat Russia presents.

Trump “can’t admit anything that may taint his election,” an unnamed Republican congressional source told CNN. “He is more hung up on how it affected the election outcome than what Russia did.”

The President last week appeared to express skepticism over whether Russian interference took place at all in a tweet referring to the Democratic National Committee’s reluctance to accept the Department of Homeland Security’s help when the former was hacked as “a big Dem HOAX!”

Pressed on his statement, deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump thinks “it probably was Russia” that hacked the DNC’s systems.

Over the weekend, Trump acknowledged Russian meddling in the election and criticized former President Barack Obama’s administration for not doing more to respond to it in a series of tweets.

“Since the Obama Administration was told way before the 2016 Election that the Russians were meddling, why no action?” he tweeted.

An unnamed senior administration official told CNN said they have “seen no evidence” that Trump has organized meetings or devoted any time to Russian meddling.

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  1. I bet if you quizzed most of the inmates in a penitentiary, they probably aren’t convinced they’re guilty either.

  2. Why would he care? He’s going to need their help again in 2018 and 2020

  3. Trumpp probably believes he won an Oscar for The Apprentice.

  4. ”President Donald Trump remains unconvinced that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election…”

    But utterly convinced that President Obama helped them do it.

    Shouldn’t the House Committee on Presidents With Psychotic Hallucinations hold hearings or something?

  5. Well, here’s the deal. At this point, after six months of his promulgating lies and bullshit, why does anyone care that he’s unconvinced about anything?

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