Santorum: 'Trail Of Breadcrumbs Means It's Not Russian Hacking'
Frothy Rick Santorum is one of the 'experts' CNN pays to pontificate on subjects like international intelligence gathering. More than a decade ago, he was famously fact-checked by Fox News in 2006 when he asserted that Iraq had WMDs-- good thing for Rick both Fox viewers and producers have very short memories.
Paul Begala and Chris Cuomo went toe to toe with him on whether the Kremlin has funded the efforts of Trump's coup of our Democracy. Ricky doesn't buy it. He 'works' with people in 'the cyber,' (like Barron Trump, perhaps?) and he knows better.
CUOMO: How come you were not equally upset by our incoming president sheltering Russia from responsibility for the hacks?
SANTORUM: Well, first off, the idea that Russia had an impact on the election because --
CUOMO: -- because you guys conflate those issues and I understand why it works for you, but it's a little intellectually --
SANTORUM: No, but first -- well, first off, I take issue and I've done this publicly and I'll continue to do it, that "Russia was responsible for hacks." First off, it wasn't a hack. It was a fishing expedition that landed --
CUOMO: Right, but there were other different hacks the Intelligence Community has consensus on. There's no diversions of opinion about who was motivating those hacks, who was channeling the information --
