Priebus: Russian election hack a ‘play by the liberal media’

Published December 13, 2016 1:29pm ET



President-elect Trump’s incoming chief of staff on Tuesday rejected the idea that Russia helped Trump win the White House, and chalked it up to sour grapes from a left-leaning press that wanted Hillary Clinton.

“This whole thing is really a play by the liberal media to take away a legitimate electoral landslide from President-elect Trump,” Reince Priebus said on Fox News.

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