President-elect Donald Trump is slamming Democrats again — one day after the intelligence community released an unclassified report confirming its conclusions that Russia sought to interfere in the presidential election.
From The Hill
Trump in a series of tweets early Saturday morning downplayed Russian influence on one hand, stating that there was no evidence the hacking affected election results.
He noted that voting machines across the country were not touched.
Intelligence stated very strongly there was absolutely no evidence that hacking affected the election results. Voting machines not touched!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2017
The assessment from the intelligence community delivered in a public report on Friday and provided to Trump in a separate classified briefing is that Russia sought to influence the election to help the Republican nominee win.
The report makes the case that Trump was the favored candidate of Russia, and that Moscow ran a sophisticated operation to try to influence the election.
The report did not conclude that the Russian interference tipped the scales to Trump, who defeated Hillary Clinton in the electoral college with surprise wins in the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Trump was the first Republican to win those states in decades. Clinton won the popular vote.
In a second tweet just after 7 a.m., Trump stated that Democrats were making a lot of “noise” about Russian hacks of Democratic operations because they had been “embarrassed” by the election results.
Only reason the hacking of the poorly defended DNC is discussed is that the loss by the Dems was so big that they are totally embarrassed!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2017
Late Friday night, Trump in another tweet said gross negligence by the Democratic National Committee had allowed the hacking by Russia.
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