Months after the intelligence community briefed President Trump on Russian influence in the election, he still isn’t 100 percent behind the evidence.
President Trump tells John Dickerson that China could have been behind the hacks during the presidential election.
First came the 400-pound hacker. Now Donald Trump suggests that China might have been behind those election hacks.
President Trump still isn’t 100 percent sure Russian hackers influenced the 2016 presidential election. In an interview on CBS News‘ Face the Nation, the commander-in-chief commented on email leaks that rocked the Democratic National Committee during the heat of the presidential race between him and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. (Disclosure: CBS is the parent company of CNET.)
„Knowing something about hacking, if you don’t catch a hacker, OK, in the act, it’s very hard to say who did the hacking, “ Trump said. „With that being said, I’ll go along with Russia. Could’ve been China, could’ve been a lot of different groups.“
The president has pointed fingers at many potential culprits behind the DNC’s hacks, including “ somebody that sits on their bed that weighs 400 pounds .
