Trump doubles down on Assange’s claim that Russia wasn’t involved in Podesta hack as he blames DNC for lack of ‘defense’ – but Paul Ryan calls WikiLeaks chief a Putin ‘sycophant’…(Go Away Ryan!)
Donald Trump backed Julian Assange’s insistence that Russia was not behind election-year hacks of Democrats’ computers and emails
Wikileaks founder said his ‘source is not Russian government and it is not a state party’
‘Julian Assange said “a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta” – why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!’ Trump tweeted
He also blasted the Democratic National Committee on Twitter for having lax IT security and blaming the result on foreign hackers
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday morning that ‘hopefully he’ll get up to speed on what has been happening and what Russia has or has not done, and he’ll get better informed on that’
Assange, Ryan said, ‘is a sycophant for Russia. He leaks, he steals data and compromises national security’
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor
DailyMail.com
4 January 2017
Donald Trump used his Twitter megaphone on Wednesday to ratchet up the debat over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s claim that Russia’s government was not involved in hacking Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s Gmail account.
In a tweet, the president-elect repeated Assange’s claim that a teenage hacker could have done the job just as easily.
And he contended that the Democratic National Committee’s own lax IT security, not a foreign cyber attack, was the root cause of the party’s embarrassment after a separate hack struck its computer network.
‘Julian Assange said “a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta” – why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!’ he wrote on Twitter – after misspelling Assange’s name as ‘Assuage,’ deleting it and then posting a second draft.
House Speaker Paul Ryan later fired back, saying on the Hugh Hewitt radio show that Assange ‘is a sycophant for Russia. He leaks, he steals data and compromises national security.’
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