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Trump Tries to Shift Blame to Obama for Not Countering Russian Meddling

The following article by Mark Landler was posted on the New York Times website February 20, 2018:

President Trump said his administration was “much tougher” on Russia than the Obama administration, even though in his 13 months in office, he has done little to confront the threat of election interference. Credit: Tom Brenner, The New York Times</em

WASHINGTON — President Trump, who spent months belittling charges that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, has managed to revive questions about how his predecessor, President Barack Obama, handled suspicions about Russia in the months before the election.

Some former Obama officials now confess to misgivings about Mr. Obama’s reluctance to act, or speak out more forcefully, even as the evidence piled up during the spring and summer of 2016 that the Russians had hacked the Democratic National Committee and were behind the leak of damaging emails about Hillary Clinton. Continue reading “Trump Tries to Shift Blame to Obama for Not Countering Russian Meddling”