12-15-2017, 03:03 AM
Quote:President Trump reportedly said before being sworn in to office that admitting Russia hacked Democratic Party emails was a "trap." Before Trump assumed office, aides urged him to acknowledge the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential race, The Washington Post reported. “This was part of the normalization process,” one of the aides said, according to the newspaper. “There was a big effort to get him to be a standard president.” On Jan. 11, before Trump was sworn in, he told reporters that "as far as hacking, I think it was Russia." “We also get hacked by other countries and other people," he added. Following his comments, Trump reportedly told aides the remarks were "not me." "It wasn't right," he said, according to the newspaper.Trump described admitting Kremlin hacked Dem emails as a ‘trap’: report | TheHill