Trump still blames intelligence community for leaking unverified report

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President-elect Trump continued lashing out at the unverified report released Tuesday that alleged his surrogates worked with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton in the election, once again blaming the intelligence community for the report.

“It now turns out that the phony allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued,” Trump tweeted early Friday morning. “Totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both Democrats and Republicans – FAKE NEWS! Russia says nothing exists.”

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