His team also bit back, in his first press conference since winning the election, about the "salacious" stories linking him to the Kremlin. Incoming vice president Mike Pence and head of comms Sean Spicer singled out Buzzfeed and CNN for their reporting. "As far as hacking, I think it was Russia," Trump said in response to a question about who he thought was behind the attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC), marking the first time he's publicly made such an admission. Russia said it had no so-called kompromat (compromising information) on Trump, something the president-elect tweeted as part of a defense, itself an attack on the press. The Trump team knows this.

Source: Forbes January 11, 2017 16:55 UTC