Trump: ‘Are We Living in Nazi Germany?’
President-elect
Donald Trump unloaded on the U.S. intelligence community in a
blistering series of tweets on Wednesday morning over a salacious report that claims Russian officials have compromising information on him.
“Intelligence
agencies should never have allowed this fake news to ‘leak’ into the
public,” Trump tweeted. “One last shot at me. Are we living in Nazi
Germany?”
CNN reported Tuesday night
that the heads of all four U.S. intelligence agencies presented both
Trump and President Obama a two-page synopsis that included allegations
that Russian intelligence operatives collected compromising personal and
financial information about him. BuzzFeed subsequently published
what it said was the 35-page dossier, compiled by a former British
intelligence operative and filled with unverified memos, on which the
synopsis was based. The Russian government denied it has any compromising information on Trump, dismissing the claims as a “total hoax.”
“Russia
just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is ‘A
COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE,'” Trump wrote. “Very
unfair!”
“Russia
has never tried to use leverage over me,” he continued. “I HAVE NOTHING
TO DO WITH RUSSIA – NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!”
“I
win an election easily, a great ‘movement’ is verified, and crooked
opponents try to belittle our victory with FAKE NEWS,” Trump added. “A
sorry state!”
Shortly after CNN’s report was published Tuesday night, Trump dismissed it as “fake news.”
“FAKE NEWS,” the president-elect wrote on Twitter. “A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
In
a combative interview with Seth Meyers on NBC’s “Late Night,” Kellyanne
Conway, one of Trump’s top advisers, also dismissed the claims.
“Nobody
has sourced it,” Conway said. “They’re all unnamed, unspoken sources.
It says it was based on a Russian investigator to begin with.”
“It was based on MI6 British investigators,” Meyers interjected.
“Well,
one of those,” Conway replied. “It also says that groups that wanted
Hillary Clinton to win may have been behind the investigations
themselves, and most importantly it says the FBI is trying to confirm
it, so nothing’s been confirmed.”
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