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For the second time in as many days, President Trump took aim at his predecessor, former President Obama, for what Trump said was a failure to act on intelligence that Russia was meddling in the 2016 election.
Trump appeared to quote from a Washington Post report detailing the Obama administration’s struggle to decide how to punish Russia for its alleged interference in the U. S. presidential election. “I feel like we sort of choked, ” a former Obama administration official told the paper in describing those deliberations.
The Post report stated that the CIA informed Obama in August that Russian President Vladimir Putin was directly involved in a hacking campaign to disrupt the election by defeating Hillary Clinton and helping to elect Trump.
The Obama administration responded by issuing a series of warnings to Russia and later approved a package of punitive measures that included economic sanctions. Obama also authorized the planting of cyberweapons in Russia’s infrastructure in a measure that was still in its planning stages when he left office, according to the Post report.
The Obama administration first publicly announced Russia’s alleged election meddling on Oct. 7 but stopped short of saying that the efforts were aimed at helping Trump win.
Administration officials did not act more forcefully against Russia in the days leading up to the Nov. 8 election because they believed that their warnings had been sufficient to compel the country to abandon any plans of further aggression, and because they were concerned that any action could be perceived as political interference in an already heated campaign, according to the Post .
That concern was heightened, the report noted, by the fact that, as a candidate, Trump had already predicted that the election would be rigged and suggested that he might not accept the legitimacy of the results. The Obama administration’s assumption that Clinton would be the victor also contributed to its lack of urgency, according to the Post.
Trump made similar comments the day before, tweeting that the Obama administration knew of Russia’s activities «far in advance» of the election but took no action.
That came after Trump had for months maintained that reports of Russian election meddling amounted to «a scam» cooked up by Democrats as an excuse for losing the election.
His latest tweets came as the Justice Department and at least four congressional committees continue to investigate Russia’s alleged election interference, including possible ties between Russia and members of Trump’s campaign team.
Trump has repeatedly decried those investigations as «a witch hunt.»

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At least 15 bodies have been found and 118 people are missing after a landslide in Sichuan province in southwestern China, state news outlets reported Sunday.
Heavy rainfall is thought to be a possible cause of the accident, according to the provincial government’s Land and Resources Department.
«Authorities must make maximum efforts to reduce casualties and prevent secondary disasters, » Chinese President Xi Jinping said, calling for «all-out efforts» to save those who were buried.
Authorities launched the highest level of disaster response. Relatives of the missing and those suffering losses in the disaster will be given appropriate care, Xi said.
The landslide occurred at 6 a.m. Saturday in Xinmo village in Mao County, Aba Prefecture, CCTV said.
A smaller second landslide caused huge rocks to fall onto the village, which made it more difficult for heavy machinery to get to the scene, police team leader Wang Yongbo told CCTV.
‘My heart feels uncomfortable’
A family of three emerged alive from the rubble Saturday, the Mao County government said on its official Weibo page. The couple and their baby were being treated at the Mao County People’s Hospital, the post said.
Qiao Dashuai, whose infant is 1 month old, said he heard a loud sound and tried to close the door to his house against the wind, he told CCTV.
«I ran outside and felt this strong wind and saw water rushing towards us, » he said. «A rock fell into our living room. We slowly crawled out while holding our baby and escaped. People from a neighboring village gave the baby a bath, and looked for clothes for us and the baby. As we went to the crossroads, we saw an ambulance. The ambulance sent us to Mao County (Hospital) .»
«Now we just have external wounds, and there aren’t any major problems. But my heart feels uncomfortable, » he said.
The landslide happened at a high part of a mountain and fell onto the village, blocking a 2-kilometer (1.25-mile) section of a river, Xinhua reported.
Landslide’s cause under review
Landslides’ causes are complicated and could include rain and unstable rock masses, an official from China’s Ministry of Land and Resources told CCTV.
«In this landslide, we feel that it is also because the whole mountain structure in Sichuan has become loosened following the earthquake on May 12,2008. There is a drop in the ‘dynamic properties, ‘ and its stability has also decreased. The recent rainfall has triggered the landslide, » Tian Yanshan said.
«Earthquakes, mining activities — many man-made and natural activities can possibly trigger landslides. When the stability of the mountain structure has reached its maximum, any triggering factor could lead to landslides, » Tian said.
Mountainous Sichuan province has a history of landslides triggered by flooding and earthquakes. In 1933,6,800 people died in landslides triggered by an earthquake and 2,500 more were killed when one of the landslides caused a dam to fail.
UN condolences
UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a statement through his spokesperson saying he is saddened about the deaths and devastation from the landslide.
«The secretary-general salutes the efforts of the national relief and recovery teams. The United Nations stands ready to support the authorities in any way it can if needed, » the statement reads.
«The secretary-general extends his condolences to the people and government of the People’s Republic of China and wishes those injured a speedy recovery.»

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