

“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators told the Post. “That’s the consensus view.”





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The New York Times also reported Friday, citing senior administration officials, that Russian actors also hacked the Republican National Committee (RNC) but chose not to release the information.

The CIA assessment also concluded that the core purpose of the interference was not to disrupt or undermine the election process, but a deliberate attempt to help the Republican nominee win the White House.

“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s now time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again,'" the Trump transition said in a statement.