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Donald Trump this morning issued the above tweet in response to Sean Hannity’s interview with Julian Assange, which aired late last night. The Hill reports:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange warned it would be a “stupid maneuver” for Democrats to continue to hound President-elect Donald Trump for Russian hacking on various Democratic agencies.
“[Y]ou watch. They will seize on this and harp on it for the next four years. I think that’s a mistake. I think that’s a mistake not just in fact, that’s a mistake for the U.S. Democratic Party. I think it’s a stupid maneuver. It’s the same reason why they lost the election,” he said in a wide-ranging interview on Fox News’ “Hannity” that aired Tuesday.
“Instead of focusing on substance, they focused on other things which they think are short-term wins, but they’re not strategic, a little comment by Trump here and there, for example, or this attempt to say how outrageous it is that the American public received true information before an election.”
Though Trump continues to question whether Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton adviser John Podesta and others, experts, politicians from both sides of the aisle and U.S. intelligence agencies widely believe the attacks came from Russian intelligence agencies. The CIA and the FBI are reportedly in agreement that the cyberattacks were aimed at helping Trump’s White House bid.
Trump is due to get an intelligence briefing on Russia’s hacking tomorrow.
The “Intelligence” briefing on so-called “Russian hacking” was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2017