Trump Makes False Claims About Russian Hacking

President-elect Donald Trump “falsely stated that the United States government had waited until after the election ‘to complain’ that Russia had hacked into American political organizations to interfere in the presidential race. But in doing so, he raised substantive questions about the Obama administration’s slow response to a cyberattack that proved successful,” the New York Times reports.

“Why did it take months after Russia’s breaches had been discovered for Mr. Obama to publicly name Moscow as the culprit? And why did Mr. Obama opt not to openly retaliate, through sanctions or other measures?”