Trump blasts intel officials: 'Are we living in Nazi Germany?'
The president-elect is blasting the intelligence community for letting unsubstantiated allegations leak into the press about his campaign’s purported ties to Russia.
In a morning tweetstorm, Trump began by highlighting Russian denials of the allegations and then turned his ire elsewhere.
Intelligence officials included a synopsis in a special briefing of Trump last Friday that included unsubstantiated and salacious allegations that Russian operatives had obtained potentially compromising personal and financial information about the president-elect, a U.S. official confirmed to USA TODAY.
Trump's tweet about Germany immediately sent social media into a frenzy. "Are we living in Nazi Germany” swiftly became a trending phrase on Twitter, and the sentiment was, well, just what you'd expect.
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