Trump on CIA assessment of Russian intervention in election: 'I think it's ridiculous'

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/The Hill

President-elect Donald Trump is blasting a recent report that concluded Russia intervened in the U.S. presidential election to help him win the presidency.

"I think it's ridiculous. I think it's just another excuse. I don't believe it," the president-elect said in an interview that aired Sunday on "Fox News Sunday."

"I don't know why and I think it's just -- you know, they talked about all sorts of things. Every week it's another excuse."

The president-elect went on to tout his "massive landslide victory" in the Electoral College.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-on-cia-assessment-of-russian-intervention-in-election-i-think-its-ridiculous/ar-AAlqBnq

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The cover-up begins. The obvious question is how would Trump know since he rarely attends intelligence briefings. Also, it is one thing to say that his campaign neither sought nor needed Russia's help, notwithstanding his calls for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton, but it is another to insist that he has some personal knowledge of what Russia is doing, which is itself strange.

Finally, the fact that he makes yet another bald-faced lie about his "landslide" victory just further underminds his point. Even if you ignore popular vote, Trump's "victory" is one of the narrower electoral college victories in history:

[Botany]

1. Call him "Putin Elect"

And his "landslide victory" in the E.C. is because of targeted voter suppression.

[Achilleaze]

7. FOX (R) failed to call Trump out on his glaring lie about "landslide victory"

No one should be surprised that the Republican propaganda spigot failed to correct an obvious and glaring lie. Anyone paying attention knows this "landslide" claim is false, and for the sake of the American people, journalists have a fundamental responsibility to correct the lie.

It speaks volumes that Fox (R) once again avoids the truth as if it were a plague. It's freaking DISINFORMATION CORPORATION (R).

[MADem]

38. A total DICK-tater....a PUTIN-tate!!!! nt

[Sancho]

2. On Face the Nation, John McCain (and Lindsey Graham) disagree...

The only talking heads who "agree" with the Trumpster are Reinse and KellyAnn!!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. His EC margin is in the fourth quartile. Bottom-ranked, in other words.

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Which is like boasting about your law degree from the University of Phoenix.

[KittyWampus]

14. LOL! Thanks for the laugh.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. This is starting to really blow up. Finally.

I think he has finally messed with the wrong people. And he pushed the envelope too far.

His claims are ridiculous.

I am not a McCain fan but I am glad he he is there right now . We need someone with the balls to take this idiot on and McCain can do it.

[Strelnikov_]

25. And the Tillerson selection will become the definition of bad timing n/t

[Generator]

29. Are they going to demand his taxes

or he must step down? Because he's probably owned by Putin. This scumbag is the most traitorous least vetted human for the job in history.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

31. Yeah, McCain has big balls alright.

He he is standing up to the bully whose campaign, four years prior, spread rumotrs he fathered a black baby out of wedlock.

[Botany]

5. But he did not deny it.

He said it was ridiculous, an excuse, and he didn't believe it but he did not deny it.

[YOHABLO]

11. I'm not fooled for a minute. What's to believe when you're in the know.

[Plucketeer]

13. This buffoon is gonna gut

every agency in Washington - save for the Pentagon. And I guess you might say even the Pentagon will be eviscerated too since all the generals will be heading the agencies!

[Eliot Rosewater]

30. It is apparantly what the voters want, if you believe he actually won the elctoral college

which i dont.

But lets say he did, the voters are saying they want to work for $2 an hour, 14 hours a day with no benefits or overtime pay.

I assume that is what they are saying because I can god damn assure you that is the plan, now.

[DK504]

6. It's totally ludicrous

says Hair Twitter, despite the overwhelming evidence that ALL of the Senate Intelligence committee squashed the information. Making ALL of them involved in the theft of this election.

[Wink527]

8. Where Are The Protests?

I haven't heard or seen anyone out in the streets protesting this. Am I missing something? Have we grown too apathetic?

[Sunlei]

10. go ahead march right out and start one :P

[wordpix]

20. Women's march on Washington Jan. 21 (1 day after inauguration of Comrade Drumpf)

From Capitol along Independence Ave (not the Mall, unfortunately).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/12/09/the-womens-march-on-washington-says-they-have-secured-a-starting-location/?utm_term=.fac222d6222b

[MADem]

36. You haven't? Have you tried looking online?

Like here?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/11/violence-erupts-in-portland-riot-as-anti-trump-protests-continue-in-cities-across-the-nation/?utm_term=.39a5dc5ba2b3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/10/not-my-president-thousand-protest-trump-in-rallies-across-the-u-s/?utm_term=.81f744969ac1

Tried twitter?

facebook?

Your local paper?

[Sunlei]

9. expect all Republicans to frame thousands & thousands of hacked files- tiny & simple like trump.

They'll even start to blame Obama.

[still_one]

12. What he is saying is that that he does not believe the CIA who is tasked with gathering, processing

and analyzing national security information from around the world.

This is quite problematic if a President of the United States doesn't believe the intelligence agency of the United States, and provides no evidence why he believes it isn't true, and it seems he hasn't even looked at the data or read the report..

Is this grounds for impeachment? I would think it is if he isn't attending intelligence briefings, because that is part of the job.

The fact that he says, "his vice president, Mike Pence, would receive his daily intelligence briefings, means he is dismissing the importance of interacting with the agencies. This is really a serious matter.

[groundloop]

15. So tRump doesn't think it'd be a good idea to even explore the possibility of interference by Russia

He fucking knows EXACTLY what was going on. He was coordinating his efforts with them and wiki-leaks. Every bit as bad as, if not worse than, Reagan coordinating with the Iranians to hold our hostages until after the election in exchange for arms. I have to wonder what promises tRump has made to Putin for his help. Also, what did Comey receive in exchange for his involvement, or does he simply hate the Clintons so much that he was willing to commit a crime to prevent Hillary's election.

[TomCADem]

16. If There Is No Linkage Between Trump and Russia, He Should Welcome Inquiry...

...Heck, Hillary Clinton called for all information regarding Weiner's computer be made public in response to Comey's letter, and the result was that there was no new evidence. Trump should support an inquiry and full disclosure in the public interest given that there is clear evidence of a coordinated attack on the Democrats in an effort to influence the election.

[groundloop]

24. Damn Straight !!!! (but of course tRump already knows the answer)

[Strelnikov_]

28. LBJ "I never trust a man unless I have his pecker in my pocket"

I think it is now clear where His Orange Eminence's pecker is located.

Russian spooks 'have the goods' on the GOP and their figurehead.

[keithbvadu2]

17. Putin is getting his money's worth out of his lackey, the Donald, even before the inauguration.

[BlueMTexpat]

18. I think that Trump

is ridiculous. And nauseating.

[wordpix]

19. yes, Donald, 17 US security/defense agencies are all wrong and you're right

[ananda]

21. McCain to Trump: The facts are there!

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/mccain-to-trump-on-russian-hacking-the-facts-are-there-cbs/

“The facts are there,” McCain said in a television interview on CBS “Face the Nation.”

Of course, what are "facts" to Benedict Donald?

[SeattleVet]

22. Facts?

Facts no longer exist, according to Scottie Nell Hughes.

Must remember the newspeak!

[Generator]

27. I just read he is not going to take intel

briefings. He is at war already with CIA! He believes his own propaganda. Or he believes and will do what Putin tells him. He must step down. I think that's a simple sentence. This is not acceptable.

[ananda]

35. It's a bleak scenario all right.

Come January 21st, Trump will decimate the CIA.

He will largely bypass or ignore intelligence briefings,
and he will offend China and other countries bigly.

I suppose our "security" will depend on Russia, and
that means destroying NATO while Russia extends
its hegemony in Europe and the Middle East, dragging
the USA along by the puppet strings.

[Jacob Boehme]

23. Trump is crazier than a sprayed roach...

.... I just pray to God he doesn't get us all killed.

[Generator]

26. If Trump isn't forced to step down

And is installed as Putin's puppet, I will not only never forgive the GOP traitors, I will never forgive Obama. I think Trump wants to use nuclear weapons. I think Trump is a danger. Trump speaks propaganda. I am not going to sit in this country and be a sitting duck. I think I will have to get out of here in a year. I'm sorry. America is over if this man is installed as president. This in no longer a democracy. It's a joke. And a very sad one for the planet.

[Squinch]

32. The NYT had largely the same headline. Rather than BEGINNING the coverage

with Trump's denial, why don't they BEGIN the coverage by actually reporting on what happened?

With the press as it is, we're doomed.

[ladjf]

33. But, he criticized Bush for not acting upon CIA warnings of a 9-11 type attack. nt

[treestar]

34. That chart is full of mathematical facts

No supporter of Cheeto Wizard cares to consider such things.

[BobTheSubgenius]

37. I am completely convinced that vemillion carbuncle knew nothing about any Russian involvement.

Who would trust him with that information, unless it was absolutely necessary for him to have it? The chances of him gloating and blurting it out are not zero, and, when it comes to Twitter, farther still from zero.