{"id":284846,"date":"2016-12-15T16:58:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-knew-about-russia-hacks-white-house\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T16:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:58:57","slug":"trump-knew-about-russia-hacks-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-knew-about-russia-hacks-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump knew about Russia hacks: White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President-elect Donald Trump knew well before the November 8 presidential election that Russia was behind hacking attacks against some Democratic organizations, according to the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Wednesday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest also claimed that Trump knew Moscow was trying to damage the campaign of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s ample evidence that was known long before the election and in most cases long before October about the Trump campaign and Russia \u2014 everything from the Republican nominee himself calling on Russia to hack his opponent,\u201d Earnest said.<\/p>\n<p>The New York businessman has repeatedly accused Clinton of not telling the truth about using a personal email server to exchange potentially sensitive emails during her tenure as the secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>During the campaign, Trump \u201csarcastically\u201d invited Russian hackers to infiltrate Clinton\u2019s email and reveal her secrets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt might be an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/15\/498025\/US-Trump-Russia-hack-Earnest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President-elect Donald Trump knew well before the November 8 presidential election that Russia was behind hacking attacks against some Democratic organizations, according to the White House. Speaking on Wednesday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest also claimed that Trump knew Moscow was trying to damage the campaign of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. \u201cThere\u2019s ample [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}