Republicans voice disdain after Trump tweets support for Julian Assange
by Julian Borger in Washington from Technology | The Guardian on (#27NCJ)
The president-elect's tweets approvingly repeated WikiLeaks founder's claim that the Russian state was not the source of the hacked emails from the DNC
Leading Republicans broke with Donald Trump on Wednesday after the president-elect appeared to put more faith in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange than in US intelligence agencies.
The sharp differences on a highly charged national security issue are the latest sign that matters of intelligence and policy towards Russia reflect a deep fault line in Trump's relationship with the Republican party establishment.
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