New Reports on Russian Interference Don’t Show What Trump Says They Do

The New York Times ^ | July 25, 2025 Updated 5:21 p.m. ET | Charlie Savage

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The administration’s claims are overblown, but newly declassified information provides some messy details about a January 2017 intelligence assessment of Moscow’s election interference.

The Trump administration in recent weeks has released a series of reports intended to undermine the conclusion reached by intelligence agencies before President Trump’s first term that Russia had favored his candidacy in 2016 and sought to improve his chances of winning.

That assessment, an unclassified version of which was made public in January 2017, has long infuriated Mr. Trump. In disclosing the reports, he and his team are proclaiming that President Barack Obama and his team torqued the intelligence analysis process to deliberately discredit Mr. Trump’s election.

The administration has coupled that case with overheated and attention-grabbing claims. Mr. Trump has accused Mr. Obama of treason, and his top officials have made criminal referrals about national security officials under Mr. Obama — all as the administration is trying to distract supporters who are angry about its broken promise to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Still, even if the administration’s use of the reports is wildly overstated, some of the information has not been made public before. It provides some messy details about how the intelligence community assessment was hurriedly produced during Mr. Obama’s final months in office.

The assessment said that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had ordered a multifaceted information operation targeting the U.S. presidential election, including by hacking and releasing Democratic emails and by seeding social media with messages promoting Mr. Trump and denigrating his rival, Hillary Clinton.

The assessment also attributed three motivations to Mr. Putin. Two have not been seriously challenged: He wanted to undermine public faith in democracy and to damage Mrs. Clinton, who until election night was...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” --George Orwell

[shelterguy]

Nothing to see here Move along Back to EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Needs Barf Alert

[Nekman]

NY Times?.....not worth the paper it’s used to be printed on,even the puppy trainers have moved on.

[OakOak]

Russian spent like 100k on Election interference, and that’s on the high side.

They spend more than that in 3 mins in Ukraine.

Obama brought in Billions. You couldn’t get a picture with Obama for the total amount Comey and Strzok claims Russia spent.

They had all Hillary’s info, her accounts were hacked.

[laconic]

They still havent given back the Pulitzer Prize award for outstanding journalism given to their lying drunk reporter Walter Duranty who claimed there was no communist-induced famine in Ukraine that caused 8 million murders from deliberate starvation.

[Major Matt Mason]

What else can the NYT say? They were involved in the scam.

[glorgau]

These are not the droids you are looking for.

[x]

My understanding was that the Russians tried to hack both parties, but the Democrat’s security was lax, so they succeeded there when they couldn’t with the Republicans.

[Big Red Badger]

XLNT Point.

[kiryandil]

"Lie like The Times"

The New Jerk ButtSlimes weighs in for the Derp State...

[Frank Drebin]

Someone needs to post that chart of the progression from “This is a conspiracy theory!” to “Something did happen but it wasn’t this.” to “Well it did happen but it’s not as bad they make it out” to “Okay, yes, it’s true.”

[RetiredTexasVet]

Does the NY Times have a Pulitzer to defend?

[alloysteel]

The NYT reflexively covering for the Obama Coup Crew once again. Still they are denying that Obama, in any way, shape, form, or manner, ever, EVER could have organized a campaign to drive Trump from office in ignominy and disgrace, and follow with persecutions and harassments even after departure from the Oval Office. But the record is showing what is there, with even more substantiation to come as more and more background is uncovered and released.

[FlyingEagle]

NYT is the center of all propaganda from Obama Brennan Clapper Comey.

[RAldrich]

“They were involved in the scam.”

Yes, exactly. The NYTimes is getting shriller and shriller, trying to keep all eyes on Epstein, and away from Obama’s Russia-hoax (which the NYTimes abetted).
They must be worried.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The opposite of journalism.

“Yeah, Trump is the real liar here, not Brennan under oath in front of Congress, not Comey, swearing out bogus FISA warrants.

It’s just standard gaslighting bulls**t.

[Bullish]

E. pluribus has a love affair going with the NY times. He posts almost all of their drivel here.

[rxh4n1]

You left out “That’s old news.”

[ModelBreaker]

“It provides some messy details . . . “

Very messy.