“That’s because he thought Crooked Hillary was going to win and he didn’t want to ‘rock the boat,’ ” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter. Mr. Trump himself tweeted, “I have been much tougher on Russia than Obama, just look at the facts.”The facts suggest otherwise, which made Mr. Trump’s latest attack on Mr. Obama seem disingenuous. He also went after Mr. Obama, declaring, “Obama was President, knew of the threat, and did nothing.”The next day, he tweeted, “Obama was President up to, and beyond, the 2016 Election. “I am very concerned that the Obama administration did so little,” said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine. But the White House was reluctant, in part because the intelligence agencies still had not reached a consensus about who was responsible for the hacking.

Source: New York Times February 20, 2018 13:12 UTC