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White House concedes Russia meddled in campaign, but denies it changed the result

Hunter Walker 16 hours ago
 

WASHINGTON — The White House Thursday addressed the joint intelligence report that found Russia had attempted to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, more than five months after the report’s conclusions were made public. First, on Twitter, President Trump dismissed the concerns about Russia as a “big Dem HOAX” and suggested that his predecessor, President Barack Obama, did little to confront the problem. White House aides then clarified Trump’s remarks and said he believes there was Russian meddling but is certain it did not affect the outcome of the race.

Trump had previously suggested that the questions about Russia’s involvement in the election were overblown and “fake news.” As recently as Tuesday, press secretary Sean Spicer declined to answer a question at the White House briefing about whether Trump believes Russia interfered in the presidential race. Spicer said he and Trump had “not sat down and talked … about that specific thing.” Spicer and his deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, frequently deflect questions about contentious issues by saying they haven’t spoken to the president about them.

The public version of the intelligence community’s election assessment, which was released in January and was compiled by all 17 of America’s intelligence agencies, concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered the campaign interference. According to the report, the Russian effort included email hacks on the campaign of Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic National Committee. The agencies said information from those hacks was released to hurt the Democrats and boost Trump, but the report specified that it “did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election.”

On Thursday, shortly before Sanders was scheduled to hold a briefing, Trump sent out a series of tweets about Russian intervention where he described it as “a big Dem HOAX!” and a “big Dem scam and excuse for losing the election!” Trump pointed to the fact the DNC did not turn over its computer servers to the FBI to look at for evidence. The bureau has said it was able to get the information it needed from computer security firms that analyzed those servers. Trump also alluded to former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee where Johnson said he was not aware of evidence Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia.

In the Thursday briefing, Sanders was asked whether Trump’s tweets were meant to dispute the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the election. She referred to prior statements from Trump and said he was clear it “probably was Russia.”

“I believe that the president said even back in January and I’ll read the statement from then, that he thinks it’s a disgrace, thinks its an absolute disgrace. ‘As far as hacking, I think it was Russia, but I think we also get hacked by other countries and other people,’” Sanders said. “I think he’s made it clear and been consistent that, while everyone agrees the result of the election wasn’t influenced, he thinks that it probably was Russia.”

The intelligence community report did not include any assessment of whether Russian hacking actually influenced the election result.

Sanders went on to say Trump is very concerned about protecting “the integrity of the electoral system” and pointed to his support for voter identification laws and a commission on “voter integrity.”

Yahoo News asked Sanders if in dismissing the hacking issue as a “big Dem HOAX!” Trump was implying that members of the intelligence community who compiled the report had colluded with the Democrats. Sanders clarified that Trump was not referring to the “hack itself” as a hoax, and that his tweets were directed at insinuations that the Russian intervention called his election victory into question.

“I think that the reference in the hoax is about the fact that they’re trying to delegitimize his win in the election process and less about the hack itself. I think he’s said several times now that he believes that Russia was part of it,” Sanders said. “Some of those same members have said that they don’t think it influenced the election, and I think that’s what a lot of this process is about. It’s about trying to make excuses for why Democrats lost and the president … has been pretty clear on where he stands with that.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-concedes-russia-meddled-campaign-denies-changed-result-201048140.html

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2 minutes ago, Snoslinger said:

but....

WHERE'S THE PROOF?

 

There is still no collusion. In fact there is less evidence of collusion than ever imagined. 

Obama knew of the russian medeling and did nothing about it. 

All russia did was give the go ahead to expose what a POS hillary and the DNC are. Most reasonable americans already knew she was a lying cunt. 

This had absolutely no affect on the election. 

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Just now, AKIQPilot said:

There is still no collusion. In fact there is less evidence of collusion than ever imagined. 

Obama knew of the russian medeling and did nothing about it. 

All russia did was give the go ahead to expose what a POS hillary and the DNC are. Most reasonable americans already knew she was a lying cunt. 

This had absolutely no affect on the election. 

I see you got your rww marching orders...
Christ, all of you had enough of a hard time believing Russia meddled in the election, after the election, with all the proof we had. I can imagine how'd you have acted if Obama made a bigger stink than he did pre-election. :lol:

 

 

 

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27 minutes ago, Angry ginger said:

Theres not been an election since the 50's  that hasn't been meddled with in some ways by the russians WGAF thats what they do and what we do.  

 

 

Well if we can blame Russia than Hillary and the Dems don't have to take responsibility for cramming a unelectable loser down our throat. :bc: 

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36 minutes ago, Snoslinger said:

I see you got your rww marching orders...
Christ, all of you had enough of a hard time believing Russia meddled in the election, after the election, with all the proof we had. I can imagine how'd you have acted if Obama made a bigger stink than he did pre-election. :lol:

 

 

 

For the record, I think Obama did all he could do.  Russia allowed the truth about Hillary and the DNC to be revealed.  Obama didn't like Hillary anyway.  The only reason he wanted Hillary to win is to preserve his "legacy". 

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26 minutes ago, AKIQPilot said:

For the record, I think Obama did all he could do.  Russia allowed the truth about Hillary and the DNC to be revealed.  Obama didn't like Hillary anyway.  The only reason he wanted Hillary to win is to preserve his "legacy". 

That and Donald Trump is destroying the country.

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Just now, ICEMAN! said:

That and Donald Trump is destroying the country.

In your opinion maybe.  In the opinion of millions of Americans he is trying to get the country back on the right track.  

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6 minutes ago, AKIQPilot said:

In your opinion maybe.  In the opinion of millions of Americans he is trying to get the country back on the right track.  

In the opinion of 36% or less.  That number will continue to go down.

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8 minutes ago, ICEMAN! said:

That and Donald Trump is destroying the country.

this country was already fucked and still would be with Hillary,  trumps a buffoon but he at least is incompetent in a different way than the last 2 idiots or the shrew would have been

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1 hour ago, ICEMAN! said:

In the opinion of 36% or less.  That number will continue to go down.

36% of "voters"

 

129 million Americans voted for President in 2016

If only 36% (46 million) still support Trump it means that 64% (82 million) DO NOT support Trump.

Thats a huge negative.

And its dropping weekly

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BURR: Are you confident that no votes cast in the 2016 presidential election were altered?

COMEY: I'm confident. When I left as director I had seen no indication of that whatsoever.

BURR: Director Comey, did the president at any time ask you to stop the FBI investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. Elections?

COMEY: Not to my understanding, no.

BURR: Did any individual working for this administration, including the justice department, ask you to stop the Russian investigation?

COMEY: No.

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