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On January 6, 2017, two weeks before taking an oath to defend the United States of America, Donald Trip was briefed by James Clapper, director of national intelligence; John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director; and Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency and the commander of United States Cyber Command.
Trump was informed, in detail, of the vast amount of evidence that showed Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
From The New York Times:
The evidence included texts and emails from Russian military officers and information gleaned from a top-secret source close to Mr. Putin, who had described to the C.I.A. how the Kremlin decided to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation.
Mr. Trump sounded grudgingly convinced, according to several people who attended the intelligence briefing. But ever since, Mr. Trump has tried to cloud the very clear findings that he received on Jan. 6, 2017, which his own intelligence leaders have unanimously endorsed.
The shifting narrative underscores the degree to which Mr. Trump regularly picks and chooses intelligence to suit his political purposes. That has never been more clear than this week.
Also present at the meeting was the-FBI director James Comey. It was after that briefing that Comey privately shared with Trump the now-infamous Steele Dossier.
In other words, Trump has known since before he entered the White House that Putin ordered the disruption.
And he pushed out every top official at that meeting to protect himself.
One day after being shown all of the damning evidence, Trump went on the offense attempting to obfuscate the issue.
The moment @Lawrence reads the breaking news from the NYT to @maddow who immediately understands that if #TrumpKnew about the extent of Putin's role in #RussianHacking on 1/6/17, he's been actively engaged in a coverup ever since. pic.twitter.com/YmlVHflzZZ— Richard Hine (@richardhine) July 19, 2018
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