Using congressional testimony from former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, who served during the Obama administration, Trump argued there is no evidence that his presidential campaign colluded with Russian Federation. "Why didn't they stop them?" the president tweeted, shortly following with "... "It's all a big Dem HOAX", he tweeted.
In a statement, former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz saying she personally was never contacted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or any government official about the breach, which would have allowed her to be briefed on the situation. "It's all a big Dem scam and excuse for losing the election!" he wrote.
"I think the primary goal (of the 2016 effort) in my mind was to sow discord, and to try to de-legitimise our free and fair election process, "FBI Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director Bill Priestap said, CNN reported. That would be very bad for the Republican Party - and please let Cryin' Chuck stay!" Hill investigators in February asked the White House and law enforcement agencies to ensure that all materials relating to contacts between the Trump administration, transition team and campaign had with the Russians had been preserved.
Of all the disturbing questions raised by Russia's interference in last year's election, the most alarming may be how a foreign power might hack into the nation's voting infrastructure.
He also says one of the presidential candidates was claiming the election was rigged. The intrusion, Johnson said, was "a fact, plain and simple".
Department officials had said about 20 states had been probed by hackers working on behalf of the Russian government, but recent news media reports had suggested the number could have been far higher.
In morning tweets, Trump opined on the Russian Federation probe and sought to assert his innocence, even as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III expands the investigation of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian Federation to look at possible obstruction of justice by the president. Adam Schiff, asked Johnson whether former FBI Director James Comey would have opened such an inquiry without evidence for doing so. Twenty-one states saw such intrusions past year, a senior official from the Department of Homeland Security, Jeanette Manfra, said. The public disclosure finally came October 7, when Johnson and James R. Clapper the then-director of national intelligence, said in a joint statement that Russian Federation was involved in cyber "threats and disclosures ... meant to interfere with the U.S. Election process".
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Hackers with ties to the Russian government successfully altered voter information stole thousands of voter records containing private information during attempts to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election, Time reported.
Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate panel, expressed frustration at Manfra " s refusal to identify which states had been targeted.
Johnson's testimony on Russian intrusion is consistent with the assessment of several US intelligence agencies, including the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency.
Trump also tweeted that a former Homeland Security adviser denied collusion with the Russians.
"We have evidence of. election-related systems in 21 states were targeted", she said.
"If Russia hacked, if Russia did anything having to do with our election I want to know about it", Trump said.
"The integrity of the entire system is in question", says Bahar, "So you need the system to push back and find out what happened and why, so it never happens again".
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