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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/trump-intelligence-russian-election-meddling-.html
So on January 6th, Trump as President-Elect, was shown official Russian communications that proved Putin had personally ordered the hacking and interference campaign that aimed to elect Trump over Clinton. And yet still all these public denials undercutting our FBI and our Intelligence Agencies and Mueller's investigation while knowing what the truth was this entire time. Accessory after fact?
WASHINGTON — Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election.
The evidence included texts and emails from Russian military officers and information gleaned from a top-secret source close to Mr. Putin, who had described to the C.I.A. how the Kremlin decided to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation.
Mr. Trump sounded grudgingly convinced, according to several people who attended the intelligence briefing. But ever since, Mr. Trump has tried to cloud the very clear findings that he received on Jan. 6, 2017, which his own intelligence leaders have unanimously endorsed
The shifting narrative underscores the degree to which Mr. Trump regularly picks and chooses intelligence to suit his political purposes. That has never been more clear than this week.
On Wednesday, when a reporter asked, “Is Russia still targeting the U.S.?” Mr. Trump shot back, “No” — directly contradicting statements made only days earlier by his director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, who was sitting a few chairs away in the Cabinet Room. (The White House later said he was responding to a different question.)
So on January 6th, Trump as President-Elect, was shown official Russian communications that proved Putin had personally ordered the hacking and interference campaign that aimed to elect Trump over Clinton. And yet still all these public denials undercutting our FBI and our Intelligence Agencies and Mueller's investigation while knowing what the truth was this entire time. Accessory after fact?
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