Putin all but admits Russians behind DNC hack:
...(Putin said) Thursday that “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year to help the presidential campaign of Trump...Raising the possibility of attacks by what he portrayed as free-spirited Russian patriots, Mr. Putin said that hackers “are like artists” who choose their targets depending how they feel “when they wake up in the morning.”...“If they are patriotically minded, they start making their contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia,” he added.
After it became clear that Russia was behind the attacks, Obama, as punishment, ordered two Russian vacation resorts that were well know "spy nest" closed:
Obama orders US Russian resorts closed, calls them ‘spy nests’
Trump, clearly rewarding the Russians, is going to hand them back to Russia:
Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in Maryland and New York
In what may be the defining moment of the entire Trump\Russian fiasco Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said of Trump's rewarding Russia for the hack, “The dialogue between Russia and the U.S. is now free from the ideology that characterized it under the Barack Obama administration”. Yeah, damn right it is. Better for the Russians, worse for the U.S..
...(Putin said) Thursday that “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year to help the presidential campaign of Trump...Raising the possibility of attacks by what he portrayed as free-spirited Russian patriots, Mr. Putin said that hackers “are like artists” who choose their targets depending how they feel “when they wake up in the morning.”...“If they are patriotically minded, they start making their contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia,” he added.
After it became clear that Russia was behind the attacks, Obama, as punishment, ordered two Russian vacation resorts that were well know "spy nest" closed:
Obama orders US Russian resorts closed, calls them ‘spy nests’
Trump, clearly rewarding the Russians, is going to hand them back to Russia:
Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in Maryland and New York
In what may be the defining moment of the entire Trump\Russian fiasco Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said of Trump's rewarding Russia for the hack, “The dialogue between Russia and the U.S. is now free from the ideology that characterized it under the Barack Obama administration”. Yeah, damn right it is. Better for the Russians, worse for the U.S..