Trump Transition Team: Russia Hacks And Wikileaks Had No Effect On Election
Rep. Chris Collins, the first House member who backed Donald Trump and now a member of his transition team told CNN that he believes Russia was behind the hacks, but they had no bearing on the outcome of the general election.
As you can see, a new meme has begun emanating from the Trump camp. Hooray!
The proof is that during the election season, Donald Trump and his surrogates relentlessly and breathlessly repeated every hacked email and unconfirmed rumor that emanated from these leaks, including many from the New York FBI field office, and never stopped hammering away at them.
CNN's Chris Cuomo played video of Trump admitting in 2014 that Russia was hacking into the U.S. and he asked Rep Collins, "...now the president-elect Donald Trump won't say what he said in 2014. It seems to be because, again, he's defensive about the legitimacy of the election."
Rep. Collins replied, "I think the basic problem is liberal media keeps wanting to in insinuate the hacks influenced the election and just last night Jake Tapper was saying there's no proof Wikileaks influenced this election."
Liberal media! Of course there's no actual smoking gun proof, how could there be? And notice the topic of James Comey and the FBI never came up.
He continued, "The suggestion, even by Bill Clinton yesterday - somehow he's [Trump] not the legitimate president of the United States."
Wow.