- President Donald Trump doubled down on his claim Tuesday that Russia alone may not have interfered in the 2016 US election, saying it could have been "other countries and other individuals."
- The statement marked yet another public fracture between the president and the US intelligence community, which concluded last year that Russia interfered in the race to boost Trump, and on orders from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Trump splits from the intelligence community: 'Other countries and other individuals' may have meddled in the 2016 election
This was the latest in a series of instances during which President Trump has diverged from the US intelligence community.
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In another public departure from the US intelligence community's assessment, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that "other countries and other individuals" may have interfered in the 2016 US election.
Meanwhile, Twitterestimated last Novemberthat 36,746 Russia-linked accounts on its platform "generated approximately 1.4 million automated, election-related tweets, which collectively received approximately 288 million impressions" just from September 1 to November 15 last year.
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