President-elect Donald Trump is set to finally receive the report from our intelligence agencies about the evidence showing Russia tried to interfere with our election, but he’s flipping out about it already on his Twitter.
This is what he posted earlier today:
The dishonest media likes saying that I am in Agreement with Julian Assange – wrong. I simply state what he states, it is for the people….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2017
to make up their own minds as to the truth. The media lies to make it look like I am against "Intelligence" when in fact I am a big fan!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2017
Trump has been saying all intelligence is stupid and he’s smarter than they are because he was against the Iraq War and they said there were weapons of mass destruction there. But he’s going to pretend that he’s not against “intelligence” now. I’m not sure why he put it in scare quotes and capitalized. Who knows what he means by that.
Later he flipped out some more:
How did NBC get "an exclusive look into the top secret report he (Obama) was presented?" Who gave them this report and why? Politics!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
What does that matter? They said they would fix up a report for public consumption too, but I guess this bothers Trump for some reason. Almost like he’s trying to undermine the trust in the intelligence agencies already, even before reading the report.
The Democratic National Committee would not allow the FBI to study or see its computer info after it was supposedly hacked by Russia……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
So how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers? What is going on?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
This was a report earlier today:
The Democratic National Committee “rebuffed” a request from the FBI to examine its computer services after it was allegedly hacked by Russia during the 2016 election, a senior law enforcement official told CNN Thursday.
“The FBI repeatedly stressed to DNC officials the necessity of obtaining direct access to servers and data, only to be rebuffed until well after the initial compromise had been mitigated,” a senior law enforcement official told CNN. “This left the FBI no choice but to rely upon a third party for information. These actions caused significant delays and inhibited the FBI from addressing the intrusion earlier.”
This statement is in response to reports that the FBI never asked the DNC for access to the hacked systems.
Instead, they relied on a third party, Crowdstrike, to assess the servers. So there’s an answer, but Trump just wants to undermine the report, even before he’s seen it.
Doesn’t anyone else think it’s pretty damn weird how insistent he is about this? What is going on!?!?