Donald Trump on Thursday evening continued to publish tweets expressing skepticism of the United States intelligence community’s conclusions that Russian actors carried out cyber attacks on Democratic groups in an attempt to influence the 2016 election.
The President-elect is set to be briefed by intelligence officials on Russian hacking on Friday, but he spent Thursday evening blasting media leaks and questioning whether the Democratic National Committee was hacked.
Trump began his tweetstorm by referencing an NBC News report on the intelligence report presented to President Obama on Thursday. Intelligence officials discovered Russian officials celebrating Trump’s win, according to NBC News and the Washington Post.
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
Trump then referenced a Buzzfeed News report about the hack into the DNC. The DNC told Buzzfeed News that the FBI never asked for access to the group’s hacked servers. But the FBI countered the DNC’s claims and said that the agency repeatedly told the DNC that it needed to access its servers with no success. Trump used the Buzzfeed News report to cast doubt on the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia was behind the DNC leaks.
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
Don’t confuse him with facts!
Drumpf is really the logical conclusion to the Republicans’ theme for the last 30 or 40 years: Ignorant and proud of it.
Hey, classic disinformation. Strew misinformation and untruths far and wide.
Vladdie taught Donnie well…
Here’s a thought for Trump: Why not wait for his briefing to ask all of these questions?
Trump is just a smarter version of Reagan, and not as senile.
Trump confesses with every word… I’m beginning to think he’s very afraid there is something they are going to find that he knows was likely treason of an official sort. He’s telegraphing his culpability in some nefarious incident or incidents, he’s nervous as a cat that there’s something he did or knew about that has been exposed.
Trump’s a loose cannon, in every sense of the term.
Anyone who is still fawning over him should get his image tattooed on their hindquarters.