And he repeatedly lied. But the media in attendance weren’t allowed to follow up or to question him on his lies.For example, Trump wrongly stated that “the Democratic National Committee was totally open to be hacked. They did a very poor job. … And they tried to hack the Republican National Committee, and they were unable to break through.” Baloney.FBI Director James B. Comey said there was evidence that Republican National Committee computers were also targeted. The critical difference, according to Comey, was that none of the information obtained from the RNC was leaked. Also, according to Comey, the Russians “got far deeper and wider into the [DNC] than the RNC,” adding that “similar techniques were used in both cases.”
Source: Robert Reich (Trump’s Plan to Neuter the White House Press Corps)
Unfortunately this is a poor example. The DNC was hooked by a very simple phishing operation and whoever was responsible for advising Podesta did indeed do a “very poor job” (and so by implication did whoever hired him right up to Podesta and the DNC leadership themselves). Almost cetainly the RNC was “also targeted” by “similar techniques” but as Comey said, the Russians “got far deeper and wider into the [DNC] than the RNC.” This is totally consistent with Trump’s claim that “they tried to hack the Republican National Committee, and they were unable to break through.” That claim may be “Baloney”, in that other techniques did get in to the Republicans and the discovered embarassing information was not released, but there is nothing in Reich’s rebuttal to justify that counter-claim.