{"id":1308,"date":"2017-05-01T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/01\/trump-reverses-his-admission-that-russia-was-behind-election-hacks-calls-active-federal-investigati\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:54:00","slug":"trump-reverses-his-admission-that-russia-was-behind-election-hacks-calls-active-federal-investigati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-reverses-his-admission-that-russia-was-behind-election-hacks-calls-active-federal-investigati\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Reverses His Admission That Russia Was Behind Election Hacks, Calls Active Federal Investigati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div lang=\"EN-US\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"#954F72\">\n<div class=\"m_-6348897671005524468WordSection1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Yesterday, Donald Trump reversed his admission that Russia was behind the hacking of his opponents in the 2016 election and tried to cast doubt on the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation.&nbsp; Trump <span new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-interview-full-transcript-face-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span arial=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">said<\/span><\/a><\/span> that he doesn&rsquo;t know if Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and called allegations of his campaign&rsquo;s ties to Russia &ndash; which are being investigated by the FBI and multiple Congressional committees &ndash; a &ldquo;phony story.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span calibri=\"\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"color:black\">THE TRUTH: Seventeen intelligence agencies <\/span><\/b><span new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2016\/10\/21\/17-intelligence-agencies-russia-behind-hacking\/92514592\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b><span arial=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">concluded<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><b><span style=\"color:black\"> that Russia interfered in the election to help elect Trump and FBI Director James Comey <\/span><\/b><span new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/20\/us\/politics\/intelligence-committee-russia-donald-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b><span arial=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">confirmed<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><b><span style=\"color:black\"> that the FBI is actively investigating collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span calibri=\"\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"color:black\">In fact, earlier this year <\/span> <\/b><b><span style=\"color:red\">Trump himself <\/span><\/b><span new=\"\" roman=\"\" style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/11\/us\/politics\/trumps-press-conference-highlights-russia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b><span arial=\"\" style=\"font-family:\">conceded<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><b><span style=\"color:red\"> that Russia interfered in the election.<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color:black\"> <\/span> <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span calibri=\"\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"color:black\">Trump may wish that it would go away, but it&rsquo;s clear there is nothing &ldquo;phony&rdquo; about this story.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Donald Trump reversed his admission that Russia was behind the hacking of his opponents in the 2016 election and tried to cast doubt on the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation.&nbsp; Trump said that he doesn&rsquo;t know if Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and called allegations of his campaign&rsquo;s ties to Russia &ndash; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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