Says the man who spent months warning the election would be rigged against him, then lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College after an assist from the FBI director:
The Trump camp in general is in overdrive downplaying revelations that the Russians may not just have wanted to destabilize the U.S. election on general principle but specifically in order to benefit Trump. Asked whether Trump had been in touch with House Speaker Paul Ryan or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and whether he’d support investigations into whether the Russia allegations were true—investigations that could in theory find the allegations baseless—Trump spokesman Jason Miller pivoted hard and fast: “I’m not aware of the last time that the president-elect and Leader McConnell spoke but going back to this overall narrative in the news right now, I think really clearly what this is [is] an attempt to delegitimize President-elect Trump’s win.”
Kellyanne Conway was also working hard to deflect:
In response, Conway said, "The President-elect does not want interference into our politics. But we also don’t want politics into the interference of our intelligence. And that’s what’s happening now. People are trying to politicize our intelligence because they don’t like the election result."
Except that the subject came up before the election, when basically everyone—Trump campaign included—assumed that the election result would be different. It came up publicly and it came up privately, where Mitch McConnell ensured it wouldn't become more public. Oh, and it came up when Donald Trump begged Russia to hack Hillary Clinton.
It’s a good thing these people have a lot of practice at shameless lying and disingenuous deflection, because those skills are getting a workout on this one.