US President-elect Donald Trump has turned down talk of imposing sanctions against Russia in response to Moscow’s alleged interference in the November 8 election.
Talking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Wednesday night, Trump downplayed the allegations of Russian intervention in the election and stressed the need to move forward.
“I think we ought to get on with our lives,” Trump told reporters.
“I think the computers have complicated lives very greatly. The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what’s going on,” he said.
“We have speed, we have a lot of other things, but I’m not sure we have the kind of security that we need,” he added.
Trump said he has not discussed the issue of sanctions with senators yet but that he “certainly will be over a period of time.”
The administration of President Barack Obama has repeatedly claimed that the hacking attacks weeks before the election against…