Security analyst warns Russian hack report undermines legitimacy of Trump presidency: He knows it
“Trump understands the implications of this,” Baer continued. “Russians may have helped him to win the presidency. I can’t read it any other way, and you’re right, the intelligence community is not going to assess how much effect this Russian covert action had on the elections. They can’t. CIA doesn’t have the ability, neither does the FBI. But, I think, this report undermines the legitimacy of the Trump presidency. He knows it, that’s why talking about the Chinese and Iranians and all these people. He’s trying to deflect the implications but I think it’s devastating for him.”
Sciutto refused to say whether he believed that it undermined Trump’s legitimacy but acknowledged that it certainly raised questions. Trump himself does seem to feel that this report unfairly undermines his win.
“But interesting, just in the last few minutes we saw Donald Trump tweet again, this time taking aim, in effect blaming the Democratic Party for this,” Sciutto continued. “Saying gross negligence by the Democratic National Committee allowed hacking to take place. The Republican National Committee had a strong defense. This is spin.”
Lemon interjected that Trump’s assessment simply wasn’t the truth. “The RNC was hacked as well,” he explained.
Sciutto agreed saying that Trump’s assessment was misleading and that the report found that both parties were targeted but only one party had information leaked.
“I think, Don, we have to stop expecting an honest conversation about this from the president-elect,” Sciutto blasted. The other two men looked down, nodding their heads. “Because, his point of view appears to be that it is unfairly undermining his victory.
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