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http://fortune.com/2016/12/10/trump-twitter-apprentice-russia/

The leaked documents, first published by a hacker who called himself “Guccifer 2.0” and who is now believed to be a character created by Russian intelligence, portrayed some committee officials as favoring Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy while denigrating her opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders. The release of the internal party emails and documents led to the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chairwoman of the party.

The administration has not publicly accused the Russian government of the Democratic National Committee hacking, or presented evidence to back up such a case.

In the past, the Obama administration has stopped short of retaliating against Russia — at least in any public fashion — for its attacks on the State Department and White House unclassified email systems, or on networks used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It never even publicly identified Russian intelligence as the source of those intrusions, though the subject was widely discussed by senior United States officials when they were not speaking for attribution.

In contrast, the United States did bring indictments against Chinese and Iranian hackers for thefts of intellectual property and attacks on American banks, and imposed economic sanctions against North Korea in early 2015, for hacking into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computers.

Lawmakers alarmed Exxon chief could empower Putin
Donald Trump’s leading candidate for secretary of state, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, would accelerate the president-elect's collision course with Congress over his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and raise new questions about Putin’s role in the election.

Tillerson, whom Trump officials now call the front-runner for America’s top diplomatic job, has spent hours with Putin negotiating billions of dollars in Russian oil projects, and is believed to be on friendlier terms with the Russian autocrat than all but a handful of Americans.

The potential selection of a Putin friend for the critical post is raising alarm in both parties that Trump intends to act on his campaign talk of refashioning a U.S.-Russian relationship now at its most adversarial point since the end of the Cold War.

Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are likely to mount aggressive opposition to Tillerson, according to sources familiar with their thinking.

He is so accomplished he can still produce 'Celebrity Apprentice' while performing as the leader of what previously was known as the free world. Are you comfortable with that???? Honestly, doesn't that at least unsettle you a tad???

He already said as much. He can handle his tv show and the presidency. It's a nice part time job for this billionaire.

I was sent to Romania in 1988 and I still remember what terrible shape Bucharesti was in. I was never so happy in my entire life as when the aircraft I was in left Communist airspace.

I remember seeing a huge, ugly, Russian building in Bucharest.

you ever seen any soviet architecture? that's ugly.