The US intelligence community’s assessment, released in January 2017, concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an extensive operation to interfere with the US election. The goals were threefold: to undermine faith in democracy,

President Donald Trump rehashed longstanding grievances over the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his first term, lashing out Tuesday following a new report from his intelligence director aimed at casting doubt on long-established findings about Moscow's interference in the 2016 election.