[Special] Donald Trump: Perpetual Liar, Vainglorious Blowhard (Russian Hacking Edition)

• Yahoo News: Donald Trump Rips ‘NBC Nightly News’ as ‘Biased, Inaccurate and Bad’ by Brian Flood (December 12, 2016) - 

President-elect Donald Trump blasted “NBC Nightly News” as “biased, inaccurate and bad,” adding another twist to his bizarre relationship with the network continues.

Trump apparently didn’t like an NBC segment that showed excerpts of his “Fox News Sunday” interview with Chris Wallace in which he said he rejects CIA findings regarding Russia hacking the election and opts not to receive daily intelligence briefings.

• NBC News: Trump Has Been Strikingly Consistent in Denying Russian Hacking Role by Chuck Todd (January 6, 2017) - 

As President-elect Donald Trump today receives his intelligence briefing from top officials on Russia's role in the 2016 presidential race, it's worth listing his remarkable consistency denying Russian interference, which dates back to the debate season.

[Todd lists eight (8) separate direct quotes from Trump denying Russia was behind the hack]

• Washington Post: Trump Admits to Russian Hacking Even As He Attacks U.S. Intelligence Committee by Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker (January 12, 2017) - 

President-elect Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time here Wednesday that Russia was responsible for hacking the Democratic Party during last year’s election, but he denied that the leaks were intended to boost him and argued that Moscow would cease cyberattacks on the United States once he is sworn in.

In a rollicking hour-long news conference, Trump furiously denounced as “fake news” the reports that Russia had obtained salacious intelligence that could compromise him. He suggested that any damaging information collected by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration would already have been released — and he celebrated what had leaked out about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

“As far as hacking, I think it was Russia,” Mr. Trump said. “Hacking’s bad, and it shouldn’t be done. But look at the things that were hacked, look at what was learned from that hacking.”