Donald Trump Trusts Julian Assange More Than U.S intelligence Services

by Hayden Thomas / Jan 05, 2017 10:36 AM EST

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The elected President of the United States, Donald Trump, has started with a very bad standing relationship with the intelligence services of his country. Trump seems to trust Julian Assange, founder of Wiki Leaks, more than the US intelligence services.

Trump, who will assume the presidency of the United States on January 20, tweeted Assange's remarks in an interview with Fox News. The interview took place at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the Wiki Leaks founder has been living for 5 years to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where there is an arrest warrant against him for alleged sexual abuse.

The billionaire founder of Wiki Leaks quoted to doubt that Russia was behind the operation of 'hacking' emails Democratic Party during the election campaign, as claimed by the intelligence services of the United States.

Julian Assange says "a 14-year-old boy could hack (John) Podesta' (Democrat campaigner Hillary Clinton) - Why was the DNC so neglected? That the Russians did not give him the information!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

A few minutes later Trump re-edited a Fox News tweet with a quote from Assange in which the founder of Wiki Leaks claimed that the coverage the US press is "very dishonest." The president-elect also criticized the "double standard" of the press by ignoring what the Democratic campaign did during the election. And he set the example when Donna Brazile, CNN contributor, leaked a question of debate to Hillary Clinton's campaign, according to CNN.

Wiki Leaks published the leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Podesta during the US presidential election. The president-elect has often complained about how the media covered him. During the election campaign, he had a blacklist of vetoed media to cover his rallies because they had been critical of him, including The Washington Post.

Trump criticized the intelligence services for delaying a meeting planned this week on the alleged Russian hacking. The Intelligence Briefing on the so-called 'Russian hacking' was postponed until Friday, perhaps to give them more time to build a case. "...Very strange!" tweeted the president-elect.

Trump has not only questioned whether the Russians hacked emails of the Democratic Party, as claimed by the US intelligence services but in December his transition team also said that "these are the same people who said that (former president Iraq) Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction"