In the past several weeks, the Trump administration has published a number of studies aimed at undermining the judgment made by intelligence services prior to President Trump’s first term that Russia had supported his campaign in 2016 and worked to increase his prospects of winning.
Mr. Trump has long been enraged by the judgment, an unclassified version of which was made public in January 2017. He and his staff are announcing that President Barack Obama and his team intentionally manipulated the intelligence analysis process to undermine Mr. Trump’s win by revealing the findings.
Alongside that case, the administration has made inflammatory and eye-catching allegations. As the government tries to divert supporters who are upset by its missed pledge to release the Jeffrey Epstein materials, Mr. Trump has accused Mr. Obama of treason and his top officials have made criminal referrals concerning national security officers under Mr. Obama.
However, some of the information has never been made public before, even if the administration’s use of the reports is greatly exaggerated. It offers some disorganized information about how the assessment of the intelligence community was hastily created in the last few months of Mr. Obama’s presidency.
According to the assessment, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin ordered a multipronged information campaign aimed at the U.S. presidential election. Among other things, the operation involved hacking and leaking Democratic emails and spreading messages on social media that praised Mr. Trump and disparaged his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
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