He also downplayed the seriousness and impact of the cyber espionage campaign.

Trump tweeted on Saturday.

The cyber hack is far greater in the fake news media than in actuality, Russia, Russia.

Russia is the priority chant when anything happens, because lame stream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be China.

But that goes against the words of his own secretary of state.

In a Friday interview, Mike Pompeo said.

Quote, Weaken, say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity.

Trump's tweet tag.

Pompeo a.

Zwelling National Intelligence Director John Radcliffe, who has yet to publicly comment on who was behind the data breach.

The State Department office of the Director of National Intelligence and National Security Council did not respond to requests for comment on Trump's tweet.

The Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, referred to Trump's comments as a quote, scandalous betrayal of our national security.