Trump team turns focus of Russia report to cybersecurity holes
The Hill | January 08, 2017
Donald Trump's team used appearances on the Sunday morning news shows to try to shift the public focus on the intelligence community's report on Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential race. Instead of focusing on the crux of the report — that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a multifaceted campaign aimed at helping Trump take the White House — members of the president-elect's team emphasized Russia's failure to actually disrupt the country's democracy and influence election results. Incoming Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said Sunday he thinks Trump accepts the findings of the intelligence community. "He is not denying that entities in Russia were behind this particular hacking campaign," Priebus told "Fox News Sunday."