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A secret assessment by America's intelligence agency CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 presidential elections to help Donald Trump win, according to a media report, which was strongly refuted by the President-elect's transition team.
“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia's goal here was to favour one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected. That's the consensus view,” a senior US official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to Senators was quoted as saying by The Washington Post.
“The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the US electoral system,” the report said, citing officials briefed on the matter.
However, in a statement, Trump's presidential transition team dismissed the report.
“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” the transition team said.
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