Conway: Intel officials didn’t tell Trump about Russia’s damaging info on him

The former Trump campaign manager called out intelligence officials for not briefing Trump on the newest development in their investigation of Russian hacking of U.S. entities.

“It says they never briefed him on it – that they appended it, two pages to the bottom of his intel report,” Conway told NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers.

“I believe it said they did brief him on that,” Meyers responded, though the CNN report did not state whether Trump was briefed in person on the two pages.

“He has said he is not aware of that,” Conway said.

The two-page summary cited the work of a former British intelligence officer that U.S. officials deemed credible, according to a report on CNN Tuesday evening. It “also included allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government.”

Conway dismissed the allegations and bashed the spooks for leaking information to the press, but not the president-elect.

“Guess what hasn’t happened, Seth. Nobody has sourced it. They’re all unnamed, unspoken sources in the story. It says it was based on a Russian investigator to begin with,” Conway added. “It also says Hillary Clinton, and groups that wanted Hillary Clinton to win, may have been behind the investigations themselves.”

Intelligence officials have 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 federal agencies.

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.

Conway said Trump’s team is waiting for the FBI to confirm or deny the information in the report.