Yeah, and I don't mean to suggest that he's stupid, he just does not measure his words.
I would bet in his mind he thinks "yeah, Russia hacked or tried to hack our elections, they tried to troll public opinion in my favor. They'll never admit it so why get all butthurt over it. We have a dept. in the CIA that does the same thing to them. And then there's the Democrats, they hack themselves.
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Obama tried to influence Israeli elections, previous administrations have tried to influence other political events.
Mostly what we are experiencing is the daily barrage of BS from the mainstream media who hates Trump and have discarded any remnant of impartiality.