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Trump not convinced Russian meddling took place, communications chief says

The Guardian: Donald Trump remains unconvinced that Russia interfered in last year’s US election, his new communications chief said on Sunday, as the White House gave mixed signals about whether it would approve new sanctions against Moscow.

Anthony Scaramucci said the president believed Russian intelligence services were “super confident in their deception skills and hacking” and would have left no trace if they had intruded into Democratic computer systems.

“If the Russians actually hacked this situation and spilled out those emails, you would have never seen it, you would have never had any evidence of them,” Scaramucci quoted the president as saying, during an interview with CNN’s State of the Union.

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