Intelligence Community Claims on Trump

Intelligence Community Claims on Trump

Some members of the intelligence community have claimed that President Trump is not only in bed with the Russians, but that he may be being blackmailed. Are they credible? ...
C. Mitchell Shaw

In the weeks between Donald Trump’s election and his inauguration, the allegations that he is a “puppet” under the control of Russian president Vladimir Putin escalated exponentially. The unfounded accusation — first made by Hil­lary Clinton as a dodge of the scandal in which she and the DNC found themselves embroiled as a result of WikiLeaks disclosures that revealed the illegal and unethical things that were happening as a matter of course in the DNC and Clinton campaign — had already been widely reported by the liberal media. After Trump’s election, that accusation received the imprimatur of the intelligence community.

One month after the election — during which time the liberal media had a heyday reporting on Clinton’s claims — the CIA presented President Obama and other senior government officials a “secret assessment” concluding in “high confidence” that Russia ran a covert operation in the late stages of the presidential campaign to harm Clinton’s chances and promote Trump, according to media reports quoting unnamed “senior administration officials.”

The Washington Post reported on December 10:

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