Donald Trump returned to the attack over the Russia investigations on Monday, claiming the Obama administration “did nothing” in response to election interference from Moscow other than investigate his campaign “to discredit so Crooked H could win”, producing a scandal “bigger than Watergate”.
The president tweeted less than a week after the NSA and cyber command chief, Adm Mike Rogers, told a Senate committee the president had not authorised him to counter ongoing Russian cyber-attacks and said the US under Trump had “clearly” not done enough in the area.
The Trump White House has also been slow to implement sanctions against Russia passed overwhelmingly by Congress in response to election meddling.
On Sunday, Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough told NBC a bipartisan statement on Russian interference issued before the election was “dramatically watered down” at the insistence of the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell.
Source : theguardian
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