BREAKING: NBC Drops Tuesday Night Stunner; Russia Hacked 7 States For 2016 Election

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As the country learned today that President Donald Trump has issued no orders during his first thirteen months in office to address ongoing attacks by Russian election hackers, NBC News broke yet another story ahead of the 2018 elections.

President Obama received intelligence just days ahead of Trump’s inauguration that websites and databases of state voting systems were successfully hacked in 2016.

‘The U.S. intelligence community developed substantial evidence that state websites or voter registration systems in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed covert operatives prior to the 2016 election — but never told the states involved, according to multiple U.S. officials.

‘Top-secret intelligence requested by President Barack Obama in his last weeks in office identified seven states where analysts — synthesizing months of work — had reason to believe Russian operatives had compromised state websites or databases.

‘Three senior intelligence officials told NBC News that the intelligence community believed the states as of January 2017 were Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin.’

While Trump will surely raise questions (and accusations, and calls to lock Obama up) about the fact that Obama knew about the breach during his last few days in office, he’ll only be deflecting from the fact that he’s been in office for 403 days and has willfully ignored the threat despite warnings by intelligence officials.

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