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		</div><p>Donald Trump&#8217;s top aides have said the US president-elect is not ready to accept the finding by intelligence officials that Moscow hacked Democratic emails in a bid to elevate the billionaire property mogul.</p>
<p>And they stressed that even if it were true, Republican Mr Trump still won the White House fair and square.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, members of the Electoral College will formally cast votes for Mr Trump as the nation&#8217;s 45th president on Monday.</p>
<p>While Democrats are probably powerless to stop it, they suggested Mr Trump&#8217;s victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton would forever be tainted by Russian meddling.</p>
<p>Republican electors have been inundated by Trump opponents urging them to defy the results in their states and vote against him.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">If my many supporters acted and threatened people like those who lost the election are doing, they would be scorned &; called terrible names!</p>
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<p><i>&#8220;This whole thing is a spin job,&#8221;</i> said Mr Trump&#8217;s incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus. <i>&#8220;And I think what the Democrats ought to do is look in the mirror and face the reality that they lost the election.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Trump himself weighed in Sunday evening, tweeting, <i>&#8220;If my many supporters acted and threatened people like those who lost the election are doing, they would be scorned &#038; called terrible names!&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The partisan swipes mostly ignored warnings by foreign policy experts that part of Russia&#8217;s calculation also was probably payback for years of US criticism of its own elections and a desire to portray America as a flawed champion of democracy &#8211; potentially weakening US power on the world stage.</p>
<p>Russia has vehemently denied the accusation.</p>
<p>Many politicians, including some leading Republicans, say voters may not have been swayed by the release of tens of thousands of private emails. But the fact that a foreign power tried to intervene in US democracy and exploit divisions in American politics is cause for alarm, they say.</p>
<p>Still, Mr Trump&#8217;s transition team and loyalists on Capitol Hill were not buying it, at least not on the eve of the Electoral College vote.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Where&#8217;s the evidence?&#8221;</i> said Kellyanne Conway, Trump&#8217;s campaign manager.</p>
<p>Asked about President Barack Obama&#8217;s vow to retaliate against the Russians, she said: <i>&#8220;It seems like the president is under pressure from Team Hillary, who can&#8217;t accept the election results.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Democrats say it is unlikely the public will ever hear detailed evidence because doing so would disclose classified sources and methods. But with last week&#8217;s declaration by CIA director John Brennan that there was &#8220;strong consensus&#8221; that Russia hacked Democrats to try to sway the election, politicians are stepping up demands for closed-door briefings and a separate congressional investigation.</p>
<p>California congressman Adam Schiff, the senior Democrat on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, said an unclassified intelligence review could be released within the next two or three weeks.</p>
<p>As president-elect, Mr Trump would have access to high-level intelligence on the matter, although it is unclear what he has been told. He has previously called the intelligence finding of Russian involvement &#8220;ridiculous&#8221;.</p>
<p>On Sunday, Ms Conway said she was not privy to the same intelligence briefings as the president-elect and could not say what he knows.</p>
<p>Donna Brazile, interim head of the Democratic National Committee, said the DNC was no match for a sophisticated foreign power in cyberspace that &#8220;weaponised&#8221; private emails to &#8220;sow misinformation and to sow discord&#8221; between Mrs Clinton and her primary rival, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders.</p>
<p>Ms Brazile said the cyber attacks against the DNC occurred every day through the end of the election &#8211; a comment that seemed to contradict Mr Obama&#8217;s assertion that they stopped after he warned Russian president Vladimir Putin in September.</p>
<p>Democrat senator Chuck Schumer and Republican counterpart John McCain, meanwhile, have called for the creation of a Senate investigative committee focused on Russia, China and Iran potentially trying to interfere in US elections through high-tech meddling.</p>
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