Trump Told Russia To Blame for Hacks Long Before Debate

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During Sunday's debate, Donald Trump once again said he doesn't know whether Russia is trying to hack the U.S. election, despite Friday's statement by the U.S. intelligence community pointing the finger at Putin -- and despite the fact that Trump was personally briefed on Russia's role in the hacks by U.S. officials.

A senior U.S. intelligence official assured NBC News that cybersecurity and the Russian government's attempts to interfere in the 2016 election have been briefed to, and discussed extensively with, both parties' candidates, surrogates and leadership, since mid-August. "To profess not to know at this point is willful misrepresentation," said the official. "The intelligence community has walked a very thin line in not taking sides, but both candidates have all the information they need to be crystal clear."

On Sunday, Trump disputed the idea there was any hack at all. "I notice, anytime anything wrong happens, they like to say the Russians are — [Hillary Clinton] doesn't know if it's the Russians doing the hacking. Maybe there is no hacking," Trump told moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News. "But they always blame Russia. And the reason they blame Russia because they think they're trying to tarnish me with Russia. I know nothing about Russia."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-was-told-russia-was-blame-hacks-long-debate-n663686

[Thinkingabout]

1. His puppetmaster Putin told him what to say.

[liberal N proud]

2. He knew before it they were suspected

He has an inside track to Russian espionage on the US.

His babble last night was a tell. He was projecting it on anyone but Russia.

[BSdetect]

3. We live in a nightmare

drumph only exists because the gop started attacking HRC 3 decades ago or more.

They implanted the idea that she is not popular or trustworthy to the extent that even some dem people seem to parrot this, and certainly the media does just that.

Now he runs around making up crap about every facet of reality and gets away largely unchallenged.

His surrogates are practiced at the art of deception and fail to see the danger in allowing him to appeal to his undereducated followers with lies.

Its horrible that he came so close to being elected and that even now we cannot be absolutely sure he will lose.

The horrorshow continues.