Intelligence officials presented President-elect Trump with information accompanying last week’s report on hacking that Russian operatives may have personal and financial information about Trump.
The two-page summary cited memos the work of a former British intelligence officer that U.S. officials deemed credible, according to a report on CNN Tuesday evening.
The summary, according to the report, “also included allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government.”
The FBI is still working to confirm the information about Trump.
Last Thursday, President Obama was briefed by leaders of the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency and Director of National Intelligence on the role Russia played in hacking the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta.
Trump was then briefed a day later. Trump went into the briefing saying he did not communicate with Russian officials and did not think the hacking affected the outcome of the election. The incoming Republican leader also did not share that he had learned Russian operatives had compiled information about his personal and financial affairs.
Intelligence officials said they included this bit in their printed report in order to let Trump know that this possibly incriminating information about him was circulating around the four federal agencies. It is unknown whether Trump was verbally briefed on this part.
