Deny, Deny, Deny

While looking through my classmate's blogs, I stumbled upon Caleb Walters' blog, Washington Unfiltered, and was immediately intrigued by his argument in his post, Russia and U.S. Elections. I agree that cyber security is a big issue in the United States, due to the high volume of technological advances that are being made every day. However, I have to say I disagree with your statement on the Trump-Russia allegations.

The hacking scandal has been slowly unfolding since the first accusation in May of 2016. Although it was never 100% confirmed, US intelligence officials did say that they believed with "high confidence" that the hacking could be traced back to Russia. This is a huge accusation from the United States and I do not think they would have suggested such a thing if they truly didn't believe Russia was at fault. I definitely believe this could be considered, as Caleb says, "substantial evidence." The Trump administration denied these findings. After this allegation, President Trump's then campaign manager was accused of taking money from the Russians for representing their interests in the Ukraine and US. Not long after this accusation, Mr. Paul Manafort was investigated by the FBI and then soon resigned from his position. In October of 2016, US Intelligence officials released a statement formally accusing Russia of the hacking allegations. Trump's response? "Could be Russia, but it could also be China, it could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds." This in itself just suggests that President Trump is making light of a serious situation. He is avoiding any real confrontation and continues to "tip-toe" around all evidence. Just because our President doesn't want to come to terms with the truth (most likely because he's involved himself), doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't either. Although there's more evidence that has come to light in the past months, I will stop there.

Furthermore, every time this topic comes up in press conferences, President Trump will avoid answering the question in any way that he can. Most often times, he will distract them by referring them to the Hillary Clinton scandal, the Obama phone tapping or just brush it off like no one ever asked in the first place.

This puts the citizens of the United States in an awkward position-  they continually have evidence put in front of them, but their national leader keeps refusing to accept it. Ultimately, it is up to every person individually to believe what they want - however, the truth always comes out and I look forward to hearing about it in the months to come.