Despite a classified report presented to him, the US President-elect Donald Trump has questioned the assessment done by the US Intelligence agencies that Russia interfered the US 2016 election. Mr Trump declined to say whether he accepted the report or no, he only said " learned a lot"
"Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only "stupid" people, or fools, would think that it is bad!" Mr Trump tweeted.
"We have enough problems around the world without yet another one," he tweeted, saying Russians would respect "us far more" under his administration than they do with Barack Obama in the White House.
The outgoing president Barack Obama, has urged for unity among the Americans and forget all divisions erupted by the previous election. " We have to remind ourselves we're on the same team … Vladimir Putin is not on our team." Mr Obama said
Reporting the issue of Russia's hacking to the US election CNN on 16 Dec 2016 reported:
"President Barack Obama has vowed the US will retaliate against Russia "at a time and place of our own choosing" for Moscow's hacking attempts to influence the country's elections.
A
growing chorus of powerful voices on Capitol Hill -- including Mitch
McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate -- is calling for a
bipartisan probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential
vote.
But
President-elect Donald Trump has rejected out of hand any suggestions
of Russian influence on the election -- despite the CIA concluding that
Russia acted to help Trump win.
So
why is Trump so quick to dismiss intelligence agencies' findings even as
leaders of his own party express concerns about Russia's role in the
2016 election? And how conclusive are the US intelligence community's
findings?"
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