Trump's tweet came a day after Jeh Johnson, who served as secretary of homeland security under President Barack Obama, testified that Russian President Vladimir Putin had directed officials to interfere in the US election.
The president appeared to be referring to Wednesday's congressional testimony by Jeh Johnson, Obama's former homeland security secretary, who said that after the Democratic National Committee's email servers were hacked, the DNC declined an offer by the Department of Homeland Security to help the party committee, which also had been in touch with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, identify intruders and patch vulnerabilities.
Johnson said at a House Intelligence Committee hearing that the extent of Russian hacking into computer files at the Democratic party headquarters in Washington and attempts to infiltrate state election records went significantly beyond past Russian efforts to influence US elections. "Why didn't they stop them?" the president tweeted, shortly following with "...
(DHS officials testifying before the Senate earlier this week said election systems in as many as 21 states may have been targeted last fall.) No evidence has been discovered indicating that the Trump campaign had access to any of the stolen data, Time notes. "It's all a big Dem HOAX!" he wrote.
"The DNC has been in regular contact with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for many months, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed the DNC has provided all the information it needed to make its assessment", Watson said in a statement. He appeared to theorize that Democrats concocted the story as an "excuse" for Hillary Clinton losing the 2016 presidential election.
Mr Trump frequently lashes out at the Russian Federation investigation as a "witch hunt" spearheaded by Democrats.
All 17 intelligence agencies have agreed Russian Federation was behind the hack of Democratic e-mail systems and tried to influence the 2016 election to benefit Trump.
Johnson says "the Russians will be back" and possibly other "bad cyber actors", too, to meddle in future elections.
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Trump's fired Comey in May, leading to the hiring of a special counsel to oversee the probe.
The reporter had asked in the first round why Trump was continuing to dispute the intelligence community's assessment that Russian Federation was behind the hacking and leaking strategy of DNC officials' emails.
"Hindsight is 20/20", Johnson said at one point in the hearing.
Trump has called the Russian Federation probe a "witch hunt" on multiple occasions, but Robert Mueller continues to lead an investigation into whether or not Trump's campaign interfered with the election.
Ex-Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson's testimony Wednesday should mark the definitive end of "Russia hacked the election" hysteria.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says cyberattacks orchestrated by the Russian government did not alter any ballots, ballot counts or the reporting of election results. One last shot at me.
The big question now is whether any of the stolen private information made its way to the Trump campaign.
An intelligence report released in January concluded that "Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election" and acted "to undermine public faith in the USA democratic process, denigrate Secretary [Hillary] Clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency". In Oklahoma, however, the state election board remains fully confident in its ability to withstand any attack.
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