US President Donald Trump has
hit back on reports of his alleged Russia connection after the New York Times
published an investigative report yesterday that claimed that Trump's
associates including his campaign officials were in constant touch with the
Russian intelligence officials, something that the Trump team denies vehemently.
In a series of Tweets, Trump has lashed out at his usual suspects, fake news
media, Hillary Clinton and the US intelligence community, while praising those
who sound plausible to his ears.
@realDonaldTrump
The fake news media is going
crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC & @CNN are
unwatchable. @foxandfriends is great!
5:10 PM - 15 Feb 2017
@realDonaldTrump
This Russian connection
non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary
Clinton's losing campaign.
5:38 PM - 15 Feb 2017
@realDonaldTrump
Information is being
illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the
intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia
5:49 PM - 15 Feb 2017
@realDonaldTrump
Thank you to Eli Lake of The
Bloomberg View - "The NSA & FBI...should not interfere in our
politics...and is" Very serious situation for USA
5:58 PM - 15 Feb 2017
@realDonaldTrump
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia
during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
6:12 PM - 15 Feb 2017
Everything that puts him in a
negative hue is utter non-sense, a part of conspiracy theories to promote blind
hatred. The real issue, according to Trump, is how the 'classified information'
is being revealed by the intelligence community, that he terms illegal.
@realDonaldTrump
The real scandal here is that
classified information is illegally given out by "intelligence" like
candy. Very un-American!
6:43 PM - 15 Feb 2017
Donald Trump's former
campaign manager Paul Manafort, who
worked for pro Russian leaders in Ukraine, too has termed the Times report as
absurd. Russia, too, as expected has denied the claims made in the Times
report.
The Times report is based on
versions for former and serving US officials and refutes the Trump team claims
that there were no direct contact between the Donald Trump camp and the Russian
intelligence officials. The American intelligence has submitted reports that
Russian indeed tried to help the Donald Trump campaign in the US Presidential
polls but no one was named and no evidence of Trump's complicity was found.
Ever since the report got
out, it has created a furore. Brian Fallon, press secretary of Hillary
Clinton's campaign, has termed it a 'colossal scandal'. Her campaign manager
Robby Mook has tweeted to ask 'why the FBI sent a letter about Clinton but not
about this?' Renowned CBS news anchor Dan Rather has gone a step ahead and said
that Trump's Russian connection may be a bigger scandal than Richard Nixon's
Watergate Scandal.
©SantoshChaubey