You can’t blame the President for being skeptical.
Which is, what did happen to the DNC servers? How could the federal government conclude that the DNC was hacked by Russia if it did not examine the servers first-hand? Was all the evidence destroyed, per the DNC’s court filing? Leaving aside the debate over whether a president should take these concerns to a press conference while at the summit overseas, on the substance, Trump is asking a very good question. Just days ago on Twitter, on July 14, Trump was asking where the server is.įor his skepticism, the President was excoriated by media outlets and former intelligence officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan, who accused Trump of treason. It could have been a lot of people interfered.” That’s not much different from what he said in Helsinki. On July 6, 2017, he said, “Well, I think it was Russia, and I think it could have been other people and other countries. This is of course not the first time President Trump has questioned the intelligence assessment that Russia hacked the DNC and Podesta emails. I - I really believe that this will probably go on for a while, but I don’t think it can go on without finding out what happened to the server.” But I have - I have confidence in both parties.
I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be. I have President Putin he just said it’s not Russia. My people came to me, Dan Coats came to me and some others, they said they think it’s Russia.
Trump elaborated on the question, saying, “With that being said, all I can do is ask the question. Here, Comey was referring to a private company analysis that was done of the DNC servers by Crowdstrike, which the FBI deferred to for evidence of the hack. 10, 2017 before the Senate Intelligence Committee, then-FBI Director James Comey stated that “Ultimately what was agreed to is the private company would share with us what they saw… Our forensics folks would always prefer to get access to the original device or server that’s involved, so it’s the best evidence.” Moreover, it appears the FBI never took possession of the server, based upon publicly available information. The lawsuit stated, “As a result of the persistence of the Russian state-sponsored infiltration, in order to remove the unauthorized users from its network, the DNC was required to decommission more than 140 servers, remove and reinstall all software, including the operating systems, for more than 180 computers, and rebuild at least 11 servers.” In this case, the President is asking why the FBI never took possession of the DNC servers when it conducted its investigation of the hack.īecause according to the DNC lawsuit against the Trump campaign, Wikileaks and Russia that was filed in April, the committee may have destroyed all the evidence of the alleged hack by Russia of the DNC emails. Which seems to be a rational thing to do, when claims or allegations are made. intelligence agencies, which have stated Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and John Podesta emails in the 2016 election campaign, or Putin, who has denied any role by his government.įor his part, the President is not convinced. That was President Donald Trump at the Helsinki, Finland summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 16, responding to a question of whether he believed U.S. “Where is the server? I want to know where is the server and what is the server saying?” By Robert Romano In federal court, the DNC said it decommissioned 140 servers, erased 180 computers and rebuilt 11 servers after the Russia hack.
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