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One of President Donald Trump's top cabinet officials told a gathering of cybersecurity leaders on Tuesday that the Russians attacked the 2016 presidential election and that "America will not tolerate this meddling.".
"Two years ago, a foreign power launched a brazen, multi-faceted influence campaign ... to distort our presidential election," said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during an opening roundtable at the DHS National Cybersecurity Summit in New York.
"Let me be clear: Our intelligence community had it right.
During his summit with Putin in Helsinki, Trump said he didn't see why Russia would've interfered in the election.
Nielsen also announced the creation of the DHS National Risk Management Center.
She would not say whether she believed Russian meddling had favored Trump. »