Greta Van Susteren kicked off her new show on her new network–MSNBC–Monday evening by grilling Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus on the topic of Russian interference and influence on the 2016 race for the White House, and Priebus must have thought he could get away with the same BS he peddles to the airheads at Fox News, because he attempted to blame the Democratic National Committee for the actions of Russian hackers, telling Greta:
“As you may know, what the Trump administration is going to do is order a report and a recommendations back within 90 days of the people we have at DNI and then the CIA and Homeland Security and others to look at what we need to do to be better at protecting ourselves from cyberattack. But also what recommendation we have an a response to some of the things that have been occurring.
“What’s getting lost is some of the things I’ve have talk about over the last few days. Yeah, this was a hack and, yes, by foreign entities. But it’s also scaled in magnitude because the DNC had no defenses in place in order to prevent the hack. This is a type of hack, Greta, where someone send you a e-mail that says ‘I’m stranded in Mali, i need $20,000. send it to you me.’ And you have people at the DNC hit the link. The the FBI calls the DNC multiple times over months and the DNC doesn’t respond. I don’t think we would be talking about this if they had some basic defense in place or returned a phone call.”
But Van Susteren wasn’t about to let Priebus be so cavalier with his assessment, reminding him:
“Alright, I used the word mischief and I don’t want the viewers to think this is isn’t serious. And even if the DNC could have had better protection, I still see this as extremely serious and I think it’s very bad conduct of Putin towards the United States showing bad intent even if the DNC could have done better job protecting themselves.”
And now Putin and Trump are BFFs. Funny how that doesn’t bother Trump or his team in the least.
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