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For the second time in as many days, President Trump took aim at his predecessor, former President Obama, for what Trump said was a failure to act on intelligence that Russia was meddlingin the 2016 election.

Trump appeared to quote from a Washington Post report detailing the Obama administration's struggle to decide how to punish Russia for its alleged interference in the U.S. presidential election. I feel like we sort of choked, a former Obama administration official told the paper in describing those deliberations.

The Post report stated that the CIA informed Obama in August that Russian President Vladimir Putin was directly involved in a hacking campaign to disrupt theelection by defeating Hillary Clinton and helping to elect Trump.

The Obama administration responded by issuing a series of warnings to Russia and later approved a package of punitive measures that included economic sanctions. Obama also authorized the planting of cyberweapons in Russia's infrastructure in a measure that was still in its planning stages when he left office, according to the Post report.

The Obama administration firstpublicly announced Russia's alleged election meddling on Oct. 7 but stopped short of saying that the efforts were aimed at helping Trump win.

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Trump again faults Obama for Russian election meddling - Los Angeles Times