Yet at the White House, the Trump administration was spending its final weeks in office pretending nothing of significance was happening. Trump knew the SolarWinds hack was the work of the Russians, of course—every intelligence briefing on the subject made that clear. Yet because of his long-running unwillingness to confront Putin or his singular focus on denying Biden the election he clearly had won, or some other factor we can only guess at, Trump was doing nothing about it. He blew up at his briefers one day, claiming they had no way of knowing that Putin was behind the SolarWinds hack.
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