President-elect Donald Trump questioned Wednesday why the Democratic National Committee wasn\u2019t able to stop hacking efforts, and said that the \u201cdishonest\u201d media is looking out for Democrats.
The series of tweets from Trump come a day after he tweeted his doubt in the government\u2019s assessment that Russia was behind a hacking effort to undermine the election. \u201cThe \u2018Intelligence\u2019 briefing on so-called \u2018Russian hacking\u2019 was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange!\u201d Trump said.
The president-elect quoted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Twitter Wednesday. \u201c Julian Assange said \u2018a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta\u2019 \u2013 why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!\u201d Trump wrote. Assange is currently in asylum living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The Department of Justice has been investigating WikiLeaks since 2010, as the site publishes classified government documents.
Trump went on to quote Assange saying American media coverage is \u201cvery dishonest.\u201d The president-elect added, \u201cMore dishonest than anyone knows.\u201d He later tweeted, \u201cSomebody hacked the DNC but why did they not have \u2018hacking defense\u2019 like the RNC has and why have they not responded to the terrible\u2026..things they did and said (like giving the questions to the debate to H). A total double standard! Media, as usual, gave them a pass.\u201d
The Republican National Committee has maintained that hackers were not able to infiltrate their systems.<\/p>\n

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