Trump again doubts United States intelligence on Russian hacking

Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort that he continues to doubt intelligence agencies’ contentions that Russian Federation was behind hacks of Democratic Party officials, citing the 2003 intelligence failures regarding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Email from both hacks was made public by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

Donald Trump told reporters on New Year’s Eve he was privy to inside information relating to the alleged hacking and election interference by Russian Federation.

But on Friday, it remained clear that Trump hasn’t embraced the allegations. That will also depend on whether public retaliation is accompanied by private actions known only to USA intelligence officials and their Russian targets. -Russian ties. It was not clear whether President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly praised Putin and nominated people seen as friendly toward Moscow to senior administration posts, would seek to roll back the measures once he takes office on January 20.

“I think it freaks the mainstream media out that he has this following of over 45-plus million people that follow him on social media, that he can have a direct conversation. Because, I’ll tell you what, no computer is safe”, he said when asked how important the issue is to his incoming administration.

She went on to say that Trump once said that he sent investigators to Hawaii to look into President Obama’s birth certificate but that never happened. “There was no doubt in anything he said that Russian Federation was responsible, where you saw Sean Spicer say you had to wait and see”. Reporter: The president-elect still doubting U.S. Intelligence and questioning if Russian Federation interfered in the U.S. Election. The moves even won backhanded compliments from some Republican leaders.

One official told CNN the administration has traced the hack to the specific keyboards – which featured Cyrillic characters – that were used to construct the malware code, adding that the equipment leaves “digital fingerprints” and, in the case of the recent hacks, those prints point to the Russian government.

Trump also said he personally knows “a lot about hacking”.

If it isn’t a corporation supposedly safeguarding your personal details on the receiving end, it’s a government entity.

“It’s adding cost to Russia”, Tait said.

On New Year’s Eve, Trump reiterated his skepticism about the information from US intelligence agencies, and claimed to have relevant information they lacked. These sanctions apply to several Russian companies, the Federal Security Service and the Main Intelligence Agency of Russia’s General Staff.

Relations between Washington and Moscow are at their worst since the end of the Cold War, and Obama has previously imposed sanctions over Russia’s actions in Syria and Ukraine.

Spicer also said Trump will begin reforms meant to “bring a new brand to Washington” with a restriction on members of his administration becoming lobbyists for a period of five years after they leave Trump’s government.

Camerota then reminded Spicer that the question was about Trump and what he would do if the intelligence community concludes that Russian Federation did interfere with the election.

More than half of Thursday’s report focused on ways to prevent hacking, including warning against falling prey to electronic tricks like phishing and spearphishing – the way the hackers are believed to have gained entry to the Democratic computers. Assuming he hasn’t already ruined his relationship with US intelligence, that would do it.

When a reporter asked, “What do you know that other people don’t know?” “It takes layers and layers of defense to protect ourselves”.

Then he said, according to CBS News (which, like CNET, is owned by CBS), that he would be revealing new information about the hacking “on Tuesday or Wednesday”.