President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign of lies and deflections to protect Russia from blame for the cyberattacks that the FBI and CIA say were intended to help Trump win the election has become more and more desperate by the day.
While Trump himself phoned the New York Times ahead of his security briefing on Russian interference, to again reiterate his doubts about Russian hacking and accuse Democrats of staging a “witch hunt” because of sour grapes, his senior advisor Kellyanne Conway headed to CNN for an interview with Chris Cuomo, where she, too, cast doubt on Russian interference.
In an epic 17-minute interview, Cuomo doggedly interrogated Conway over Trump’s refusal to acknowledge Russia’s role in the hacks.
The entire interview is a masterpiece of adversarial journalism, but there were two stand-out moments in particular. Toward the beginning of the interview, Cuomo called out Trump’s denial, his lies about the intelligence briefing he will receive sometime on Friday, and his “disparagement” of the intelligence community. Then, Cuomo made a devastating observation: