New CIA report criticizes investigation into Russia’s support for Trump in 2016
July 2, 2025
A newly released report from the CIA challenges the work intelligence agencies did to investigate Russia’s support for Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 election. The declassified report released Wednesday doesn’t contradict any specific intelligence but says top intelligence officials created a politicized environment and relied too much on unverified information. The report does not address several subsequent reports that reached similar conclusions about Russia’s preference for Trump, including a bipartisan 2020 report from the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee. The panel detailed how Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the election on Trump’s behalf.
