TRENDING: Not true, says Trump of CIA probe report
Trump picks a fight with the CIA after it says Russian hackers meddled in the US presidential election
The story quoted "a senior US official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to US senators" as saying: "It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to [favour] one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected."Thus began scandal number 10,942 of president-elect Trump — and his presidency gets under way only in January 2017.Tearing a strip off the CIA is usually left to journalist John Pilger, with SA ministers such as Kebby Maphatsoe and Nathi Nhleko doing their bit to help.Supporting the CIA is usually the prerogative of the Republican establishment — think Ronald Reagan, George W Bush and their minions.This made Trump’s reaction to the story extraordinary. His transition team said: "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."And this from the president-elect himself: "Can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and we tried to play the Russia/CIA card. It would be called conspi...
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