'Trump believes that N. Korea, China too meddled in US election'

Washington, July 10: White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus has said that US President Donald Trump believes that apart from Russia, other countries like North Korea and China too interfered in the country's 2016 presidential election.

On 'Fox News Sunday', Priebus was asked to clarify what went down when Trump confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin about the election hack when the two met at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, last week.

Priebus said that, 'no matter what, Trump still believes Russia tampered with last year's race'.

However, the Kremlin said that



Trump accepted Putin's denial of wrongdoing, while Trump officials insisted the US President pressed Putin for answers.

'(Trump) said they (Russia) did meddle in the election. The one thing that (Trump) also says, which drives the media crazy, but it's an absolute fact, is that others have as well. And that's true,' Priebus said.

'China has, North Korea has and they have consistently over many, many years. So, yes, he believes that Russia probably committed all of these acts that we've been told of, but he (Trump) also believes that other countries also participated in this,' he said.