{"id":392985,"date":"2017-01-04T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T08:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=392985"},"modified":"2017-01-04T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T08:37:07","slug":"trump-questions-legitimacy-of-russia-hacking-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/ru\/2017\/01\/trump-questions-legitimacy-of-russia-hacking-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Questions Legitimacy Of Russia Hacking Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"NewsHub\"$ Donald Trump on Tuesday cast doubt on the intelligence community\u2019s claims that the Russian government was involved in cyber attacks against Democrats during the presidential campaign.
Trump also announced, via Twitter, that an intelligence briefing he was set to receive in the early part of the week has been delayed until Friday.
\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 wrote.
It is unclear who decided to delay the briefing or why it is being put off. But CNN\u2019s Jim Sciutto reported after Trump issued his tweet that the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence had not been scheduled for Wednesday.
After President Obama announced sanctions against the Russian government last week for the alleged hacking the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, Trump said that he would be meeting with intelligence officials to get brought up to speed on the probe.
While many Republican lawmakers say they believe Russia is behind the cyber attacks, Trump has so far avoided giving a definitive answer on whether he believes the Kremlin was behind the hacks.
Trump said at his New Year\u2019s Eve party over the weekend that it would be \u201cunfair\u201d for the Obama administration to allege Russia\u2019s involvement in the cyber attacks \u201cif they don\u2019t know\u201d for certain that the Kremlin was involved.
\u201cI know a lot about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be somebody else,\u201d Trump said.
\u201cI also know things that other people don\u2019t know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation,\u201d he added.
When asked what he knows about the hacking claims that the public does not, Trump responded: \u201cYou\u2019ll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday.\u201d
CNN also reported Tuesday evening, citing a Trump transition official, that the Republican has no immediate plans to publicly discuss the cyber attack allegations.
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