TRUMP SAYS EMAIL OF DENOCRATIC OFFICIALS MAY HAVE BEEN HACKED BY CHINA

INDIA TODAY REPORTS THAT President Donald Trump said China may have hacked
the emails of Democratic officials to meddle with the
2016 presidential election, countering the view of US
intelligence officials who have said

Moscow
orchestrated the hacks.
In an interview transcript published on Sunday,
Trump gave no evidence backing his allegation, first
made on the eve of the November 8 presidential
election, that China could have hacked the emails of
his rivals.

"If you don't catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it's very
hard to say who did the hacking," the president said
in an interview with CBS "Face the Nation." "(It)
could have been China, could have been a lot of
different groups."

The hackers roiled the presidential campaign by
making public embarrassing emails sent by
Democratic operatives and aides to Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. One email
showed party leaders favoring Clinton over her rival
in the campaign for the party's internal nomination
contest.

Trump has been dismissive of the statements by
intelligence officials that Moscow hacked the emails
to help Trump win the election. During the September
26 presidential debate with Clinton, Trump said China
was one of many actors that could have been behind
the hack, including "somebody sitting on their bed
that weighs 400 pounds".