U.S. President Donald Trump, on Wednesday called for a voter fraud investigation in November’s presidential election, because he believes that millions of undocumented immigrants, people registered to vote in two states, and dead people, took to the polls and cost him a victory in the national popular vote. Trump announced his intentions for the probe Tuesday […]
Top U.S. intelligence officials say they believe high-level Russian authorities were directly responsible for the hacking and leaking of documents from the Democratic National Committee in an effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. “We assess that only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized the recent election-focused data thefts and disclosures,” Director of National […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says the Central Intelligence Agency’s conclusion that Russia interfered in last month’s presidential election to boost his chances of winning was “ridiculous,” calling it “just another excuse” by Democrats for his upset of former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton. “I don’t believe it. If you take a look at […]
Russian government officials were in contact with members of Donald Trump’s campaign prior to Tuesday’s election, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Thursday. “Obviously, we know most of the people from his entourage,” Ryabkov told the Interfax news agency. “Those people have always been in the limelight in the United States and have occupied high-ranking […]