12 December 2016

News Story: U.S. President-elect Trump rejects intelligence agencies' allegations of Russian election hacking

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he doesn't believe the allegations by the U.S. intelligence agencies that the Russian government helped him win the White House via election-related cyberattacks.

"I think it's just another excuse," Trump told Fox News in an interview broadcast Sunday. "I don't believe it ... Every week it's another excuse."

Democrats are using the so-called Russian involvement to explain their heavy election loss, Trump said in the interview.

"Once they hack if you don't catch them in the act you're not going to catch them," Trump said. "They have no idea if it's Russia or China or somebody. It could be somebody sitting in a bed some place."

Trump's remarks came following a series of U.S. mainstream media reports saying that the CIA had determined in a secret assessment with "strong confidence" that the Russian government had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election in a special bid to help Trump.

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