Trump not convinced Russian meddling took place, communications chief says

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump not convinced Russian meddling took place, communications chief says

• Scaramucci: Trump’s view is ‘maybe they did it, maybe they didn’t do it’
• White House sends mixed signals about new sanctions against Moscow

Jon Swaine and Martin Pengelly
Sunday 23 July 2017 16.19 BST

Donald Trump remains unconvinced that Russia interfered in last year’s US election, his new communications chief said on Sunday, as the White House gave mixed signals about whether it would approve new sanctions against Moscow.

Anthony Scaramucci said the president believed Russian intelligence services were “super confident in their deception skills and hacking” and would have left no trace if they had intruded into Democratic computer systems.

“If the Russians actually hacked this situation and spilled out those emails, you would have never seen it, you would have never had any evidence of them,” Scaramucci quoted the president as saying, during an interview with CNN’s State of the Union.

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US intelligence concluded in January that Russian state hackers broke into email accounts at Democratic party headquarters and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, as part of an effort ordered by President Vladimir Putin to help elect Trump.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/23/donald-trumps-legal-team-denies-it-is-looking-into-presidential-pardon

[Iliyah]

1. Can't think of the name of the movie . . .

Man and women making out in his and wife's bedroom and his wife walks in. Husband and women act like nothing was happening while assuring his wife there is nothing to see and everything was an illusion. Then wife does question her own sanity. This is t-rump and his fans in a nutshell.