6th Jan 2017 17:16
WASHINGTON (Alliance News) - Just hours before receiving a classified intelligence briefing on Russian hacking in the US presidential election on Friday, president-elect Donald Trump called the focus on the issue "a political witch hunt."
Trump questioned the attention paid to the Russian hacking of Democratic Party computers given other cyber attacks against US assets that have received less attention.
"They got beaten very badly in the election. I won more counties in the election than Ronald Reagan," Trump told the New York Times in an interview. "They are very embarrassed about it. To some extent, it's a witch hunt. They just focus on this."
Trump has frequently publicly questioned assessments by US intelligence that Russia was behind the hacking.
He is to be briefed later Friday by top USÂ intelligence officials on a classified report on the hacking.
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