Donald Trump accepts Russia's involvement in cyber attack during presidential elections

US President-elect Donald Trump accepts the US intelligence community's conclusion that Russia engaged in cyber attacks during the US presidential election and may take action in response. His incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus said Fox News yesterday that Trump believed Russia was behind the intrusions into the Democratic Party organizations. Although Priebus did not clarify whether the president-elect agreed that the hacks were directed by Russian President Vladimir



Putin. 

It was the first acknowledgment from a senior member of the Republican president-elect's team that Trump had accepted that Russia directed the hacking and subsequent disclosure of Democratic emails during the 2016 presidential election. 

Trump had rebuffed allegations that Russia was behind the hacks or was trying to help him win, saying the intrusions could have been carried out by China or a 400-pound hacker on his bed.