26 June 2017 10:35 am
By Avi Selk, Amy B Wang ·
c) 2017, The Washington Post June 25, 2017 - President Donald Trump on Saturday called out Obama administration officials for not taking stronger actions against Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, contradicting his past statements and suggesting without proof that they were trying to help Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. His tweets came after The Post revealed Friday that the Obama White House had received reports as early as August 2016 regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s direct involvement in the cyber campaign with instructions to defeat or damage Clinton and help to elect Trump, according to “sourcing deep inside the Russian government.”
Trump has long disputed that the Russians interfered with the election, calling it “all a big Dem HOAX” just this week.