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President Obama on Campaign Hacks: Very Clear Relationships Between Team Trump and Russia
The POTUS opened up to Daily Show host Trevor Noah about reports that Russia was behind hacking with the intent to sway the election for Donald Trump.
Well, its not a rush. Keep in mind, when the DNC got hacked, we immediately assigned our intelligence communityour law enforcementto investigate what had happened. And we determinedand announcedin October that it was the consensus of all the intelligence agencies in law enforcement that organizations affiliated with Russian intelligence were responsible for the hacking of the DNC materials that were being leaked. That was a month before the election. This was not a secret, the president said.
I will say this, though, Trevor: None of this should be a big surprise, he continued. This was reported on before the election. I dont think there was any doubt among anybody in the media or among members of Congress as to who was being advantaged or disadvantaged by the political gossip that was being put out in drip-drip-drip fashion leading up to the election.
Then POTUS took things one step further, drawing a line between President-elect Donald Trumps team and the Russians:
This was not a secret running up to the election! exclaimed Obama. The president-elect (Trump) in some of his political events specifically said to the Russians, Hack Hillarys emails so that we can finally find out whats going on, and confirm our conspiracy theories. You had what was very clear relationships between members of the president-elects campaign team and Russians, and a professed shared view on a bunch of issues.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/12/president-obama-on-election-hacking-very-clear-relationships-between-team-trump-and-russia.html?via=twitter_page
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Obama to Trevor Noah:"very clear relationships between members of PEOTUS's campaign team & Russians" (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2016
OP
Like a man who loves his country Obama is actively working to delegitimize Benedict Donald
uponit7771
Dec 2016
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Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)1. Has this aired?
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)2. Like a man who loves his country Obama is actively working to delegitimize Benedict Donald